<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374862" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don’t desert me<br>just because I stayed up last night<br>watching The Lost Weekend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know I’ve spent too much time<br>praising your naked body to strangers<br>and gossiping about lovers you betrayed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ve stalked you in foreign cities<br>and followed your far-flung movements,<br>pretending I could describe you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forgive me for getting jacked on coffee<br>and obsessing over your features<br>year after jittery year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m sorry for handing you a line<br>and typing you on a screen,<br>but don’t let me suffer in silence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Does anyone still invoke the Muse,<br>string a wooden lyre for Apollo,<br>or try to saddle up Pegasus?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Winged horse, heavenly god or goddess,<br>indifferent entity, secret code, stored magic,<br>pleasance and half wonder, hell,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have loved you my entire life<br>without even knowing what you are<br>or how—please help me—to find you.</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=374862" data-title="To Poetry de Edward Hirsch" data-description="Don’t desert me just because I stayed up last night watching The Lost Weekend. I know I’ve spent too much time praising your naked body to strangers and gossiping about lovers you betrayed. I’ve stalked you in foreign cities and followed y..."></div> </div> </div>

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