<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374858" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lay Back the Darkness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My father in the night shuffling from room to room<br>on an obscure mission through the hallway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Help me, spirits, to penetrate his dream<br>and ease his restless passage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lay back the darkness for a salesman<br>who could charm everything but the shadows,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">an immigrant who stands on the threshold<br>of a vast night</div><div style="margin:10px 0">without his walker or his cane<br>and cannot remember what he meant to say,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">though his right arm is raised, as if in prophecy,<br>while his left shakes uselessly in warning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My father in the night shuffling from room to room<br>is no longer a father or a husband or a son,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but a boy standing on the edge of a forest<br>listening to the distant cry of wolves,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to wild dogs,<br>to primitive wingbeats shuddering in the treetops.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Hirsch">Edward Hirsch</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=374858" data-title="Lay Back the Darkness de Edward Hirsch" data-description="My father in the night shuffling from room to room on an obscure mission through the hallway. Help me, spirits, to penetrate his dream and ease his restless passage. Lay back the darkness for a salesman who could charm everything but the shadows..."></div> </div> </div>

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