<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367970" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prisoners</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though the road turn at last <br>to death’s ordinary door, <br>and we knock there, ready <br>to enter and it opens <br>easily for us, <br>yet <br>all the long journey <br>we shall have gone in chains, <br>fed on knowledge-apples <br>acrid and riddled with grubs. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>We taste other food that life, <br>like a charitable farm-girl, <br>holds out to us as we pass— <br>but our mouths are puckered, <br>a taint of ash on the tongue. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>It’s not joy that we’ve lost— <br>wildfire, it flares <br>in dark or shine as it will. <br>What’s gone <br>is common happiness, <br>plain bread we could eat <br>with the old apple of knowledge. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>That old one—it griped us sometimes, <br>but it was firm, tart, <br>sometimes delectable ... </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The ashen apple of these days <br>grew from poisoned soil. We are prisoners <br>and must eat <br>our ration. All the long road <br>in chains, even if, after all, <br>we come to <br>death’s ordinary door, with time <br>smiling its ordinary <br>long-ago smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denise+Levertov">Denise Levertov</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=367970" data-title="Prisoners de Denise Levertov" data-description="Though the road turn at last to death’s ordinary door, and we knock there, ready to enter and it opens easily for us, yet all the long journey we shall have gone in chains, fed on knowledge-apples acrid and riddled with grubs. We tas..."></div> </div> </div>

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