<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=388664" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poet's Farewell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have labored for a thousand years<br>to build the ark that rides out<br>the storm...<br>to bring peace to a war torn earth, <br>to bring healing and understanding.<br>i have bowed in prayer with all faiths, <br>in temples, in mosques, in huts.<br>i have come in many forms, <br>red, brown, black, and white, <br>male and female both.<br>i have listened without judgement, <br>i have felt what you have felt.<br>i have known your poverty, <br>and your anguish, <br>and the insides of your prisons.<br>i have felt your passions, your hatreds, <br>your fears, and your hopes...<br>i have forgiven, and been forgiven.<br>i have taken lovers, <br>and stood with friends; <br>i have fallen again and again.<br>i have believed past the point of faith.<br>i have known both light and darkness.<br>i have tended the fire all through the night, <br>i have ran naked in the rain.<br>i am each of you, and nothing else, <br>and more than we understand.<br>i have spoken the last word spoken, <br>and now my time has come...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">no longer the man<br>who feeds the branches to the fire, <br>i become the branches, <br>the flame, and the warmth...<br>and taking the form of light, <br>i kiss the darkness one last time...<br>with hope!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</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=388664" data-title="Poet's Farewell de Eric Cockrell" data-description="i have labored for a thousand years to build the ark that rides out the storm... to bring peace to a war torn earth, to bring healing and understanding. i have bowed in prayer with all faiths, in temples, in mosques, in huts. i have come in many..."></div> </div> </div>

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