<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358322" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Paranoia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the rain falls hard, I see, I see, <br>Not too far before my eyes<br>Further behind me<br>Everyone is talking; I have disappeared<br>As the elevator doors slide shut, <br>Silently, unobtrusively, and<br>Without justifiable warning<br>Above the sound of the percussion of the spattering deluge<br>As tap dancers upon a tin roof, <br>Or before me<br>I witness through the pouring rain<br>Appearing as some corrugated transparency<br>Round shouldered, hunchbacked septuagenarians<br>Analyzing my thoughts, as written behind my eyes, <br>Some sort of literature, <br>Perhaps a mystery novel<br>Indecipherable? <br>Through the drumming of the raindrops’ symphony<br>I can still hear them talking, <br>As I walk around the corner, and hardly passed the second door<br>In the corridor, <br>Out of their line of vision, to them<br>I am no longer present- yet- They are still talking, <br>Their conniving expressions, I regard.<br>In all of this moment of disharmony <br>this moment of cacophony, arrested: <br>The downpour has suddenly ceased.<br>For just a split second, quiet rules.<br>I could be the last person alive on this planet.<br>My thoughts are contained inside of a safe, <br>Locked and keyed, A calm before the storm, <br>The pulsation of the heavy rain has resumed, <br>Tap dancers upon a tin roof, <br>Everybody is talking again, <br>They have taken the key, and<br>Unlocked that box, inside of which is that mystery novel.<br>Nosy old women donning rain bonnets<br>In shelter from the storm<br>Huddle around to read.<br>But I take no heed, as I laugh, much less aloud for<br>In my fondest dreams, I am the last person alive on this planet…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claudia+Krizay">Claudia Krizay</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=358322" data-title="Paranoia de Claudia Krizay" data-description="When the rain falls hard, I see, I see, Not too far before my eyes Further behind me Everyone is talking; I have disappeared As the elevator doors slide shut, Silently, unobtrusively, and Without justifiable warning Above the sound of the percus..."></div> </div> </div>

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