<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358534" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After Us</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't know if we're in the beginning<br>or in the final stage.<br> -- Tomas Transtr&ouml;mer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rain is falling through the roof.<br>And all that prospered under the sun,<br>the books that opened in the morning<br>and closed at night, and all day<br>turned their pages to the light;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sketches of boats and strong forearms<br>and clever faces, and of fields<br>and barns, and of a bowl of eggs,<br>and lying across the piano<br>the silver stick of a flute; everything</div><div style="margin:10px 0">invented and imagined,<br>everything whispered and sung,<br>all silenced by cold rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sky is the color of gravestones.<br>The rain tastes like salt, and rises<br>in the streets like a ruinous tide.<br>We spoke of millions, of billions of years.<br>We talked and talked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a drop of rain fell<br>into the sound hole of the guitar, another<br>onto the unmade bed. And after us,<br>the rain will cease or it will go on falling,<br>even upon itself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Connie+Wanek">Connie Wanek</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=358534" data-title="After Us de Connie Wanek" data-description="I don't know if we're in the beginning or in the final stage. -- Tomas Transtr&ouml;mer Rain is falling through the roof. And all that prospered under the sun, the books that opened in the morning and closed at night, and all day turned their p..."></div> </div> </div>

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