<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397074" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mother</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They left you where you had fallen<br>against your pane <br>like a sparrow deceived in flight<br>with your delicate frail wings<br>folded limply to your side<br>your eyes closed to the world<br>I felt anger rise <br>at the feckless efforts <br>to protect you<br>from the inmates<br>the simple monsters<br>shuffling the halls in drugged trances<br>into each others rooms<br>to pilfer cigarettes or money, or<br>a grope of your gaunt flesh <br>I stood at the foot of your bed<br>staring down at you for the last time<br>crying through my shame<br>through my lucid realization<br>of abandonment<br>I vindicate myself now<br>with these failing words<br>imagining your soft quivering voice<br>at the foot of my bed<br>forgiving me for living<br>with less pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Murdock">George Murdock</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=397074" data-title="Mother de George Murdock" data-description="They left you where you had fallen against your pane like a sparrow deceived in flight with your delicate frail wings folded limply to your side your eyes closed to the world I felt anger rise at the feckless efforts to protect you from the inm..."></div> </div> </div>

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