<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Till the last minute</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You deserve credits<br>For you have been connecting ages<br>I know things of the past, <br>Long long-ago events<br>Because of you<br>I also know that generations ahead<br>Will come to know about this present<br>Only with your help</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How much I become dependent on you<br>For the simple reason<br>That you help me communicate<br>And make me understood by others<br>The way I want them to<br>Understand me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though I used to feel<br>I am being understood by others<br>In the same way<br>I understand myself<br>Later, I realised, more often than not, <br>That they have not understood me, <br>But, in fact, misunderstood me, <br>Which I could make out<br>From the reactions in response<br>To my communications</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do not know, <br>Whether I too have been<br>Misunderstanding others<br>In the same way<br>They have been doing me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is all because of the guises<br>You can take<br>You look blue to me<br>While others see you as red<br>You smell jasmine to me<br>While others feel it as <br>Some other fragrance<br>To me you look opaque<br>To them transparent<br>And so on..<br>Though shapeless<br>You can assume thousands of shapes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, my dear mother tongue<br>When I am going to do away with you<br>So that I am understood right<br>And I understand better</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hear you telling something</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Yes, when you breathe your last'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bashyam+Narayanan">Bashyam Narayanan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350740" data-title="Till the last minute de Bashyam Narayanan" data-description="You deserve credits For you have been connecting ages I know things of the past, Long long-ago events Because of you I also know that generations ahead Will come to know about this present Only with your help How much I become dependent on you F..."></div> </div> </div>

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