<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353403" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For Mother And Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why wake him? <br>You woke to nothing, <br>do you think he won’t? <br>Your hand will guide him firmly and away, <br>your lips will teach the nonsense he will say, <br>your sins on him<br>every day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At best, <br>he’ll pass the test<br>you failed, <br>but where you won<br>will be undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At worst, <br>putting him first, <br>you’ll chain his mind<br>to you in front and you behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At worst/best<br>you pierce his blessed darkness, <br>take his vision and fix his sight<br>on the broken splinters of your light<br>unmercifully shining: <br>a savage in a hole<br>dragging the sons of light<br>to gaze at shadows on a wall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s not the tomb<br>that leads to hell, <br>it’s the antiseptic smell <br>that opens on the womb.<br>There are the white-coated<br>and the flower-carriers<br>smiling in their blindness<br>goaded on by kindness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Always, behind the chalk, <br>the cruel admonitory talk, <br>the printed notice and the pen, <br>the forcing on to make them men, <br>- the kindness; <br>the blindness-kindness, <br>the training of all that can be trained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do they not realise<br>that building is for gods? <br>Cannot even the wise<br>think it odd<br>that a man must slave<br>for what he cannot have? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it left to be the knowledge of the few<br>that life is only something to be got through? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You needn’t wilt<br>or tire, <br>nothing need be built<br>any higher.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brian+Taylor">Brian Taylor</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=353403" data-title="For Mother And Child de Brian Taylor" data-description="Why wake him? You woke to nothing, do you think he won’t? Your hand will guide him firmly and away, your lips will teach the nonsense he will say, your sins on him every day. At best, he’ll pass the test you failed, but where you won w..."></div> </div> </div>

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