<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397824" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Deadline</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see that I am living a dead life<br>and the daily life<br>leaves no impression on me, <br>and before I know I am turned into a stick, <br>already fossilized <br>and life passes me<br>while I do not get involved with anything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too many times<br>I had daily contact with death<br>and now I die from life<br>and every day do the same things, <br>the same work, <br>and are caught immovable like an idiot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The same things <br>I write over and over<br>of Johnnie loosing Sally, <br>of love that charms, <br>or war that still resounds in me<br>and on our hands<br>the blood, the damned blood<br>and I feel at times as if the Lord doesn’t hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I try to live right, <br>to respect others, <br>to honour the Lord<br>and my poems stay the same<br>words of somebody surviving<br>and I still am able to adore<br>and what the church prohibits feels so right and true<br>while life hits me back<br>past the beginning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I still feel, weep and laugh<br>and sometimes sing in the shower<br>as if nothing <br>is wrong with life<br>and I keep dreaming, <br>set myself to win<br>and to stay alive<br>while the deadline<br>slowly comes nearer to me<br>where my heart will beat its last stroke<br>before it will stop eternally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=397824" data-title="Deadline de Gert Strydom" data-description="I see that I am living a dead life and the daily life leaves no impression on me, and before I know I am turned into a stick, already fossilized and life passes me while I do not get involved with anything. Too many times I had daily contact w..."></div> </div> </div>

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