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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398462" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Darkness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The twilight is framed and covered in black, <br>drawn closed on the one side, <br>when suddenly it carries blue-white thunder<br>that burns sparking, it's deadly risky, <br>where no sign of any moon<br>rise up against the closed night sky, <br>there are only thunder flashes hitting flickering<br>without a sign of the Southern Cross<br>and still the earth waits on drops of rain<br>to start their irrigation<br>when a shower continuously patters down, <br>seeping into the deep ground, <br>thunderbolts reports constantly<br>while twilight falls silver over the beach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While twilight falls silver over the beach<br>the neon lights of the night glitter, <br>cut-off from the whole universe<br>as if each one is waiting for discovery<br>and it's as if the backwash wants to<br>pull you deeper into the sea, <br>in the space where the great ocean stretches<br>and there is something in each dream and wish<br>like that Wide Ocean unlimited<br>that waits free without any bonds, <br>as if each day and night<br>works together in a perfect balance, <br>as if the darkness keeps you for moments, <br>here where the dark night now folds around me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here where the dark night now folds around me.<br>I hear your steps coming closer<br>the wild wind jerks some of the windows open, <br>in thunder I am stripped from you<br>and grief will after years have an impact<br>that still strips me down roughly<br>from reason and all kinds of hope, <br>to keep you against me once more.<br>The much deeper pain of only being human<br>does not want to subside in my heart, in my soul, <br>and sometimes like now with full fury<br>it becomes real in each thought, in fear, <br>outside purity is in everything, <br>as if the white street light shines with sympathy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if the white street light shines with sympathy<br>the city lies stretched out in the distance<br>as if it is a gigantic spaceship<br>that continually draws people to it<br>of which the lights flash on and off<br>when travellers in their cars come near, <br>bright lights are seen from a distance<br>while people gather at many places.<br>At places the lights are blinding<br>where people revel at each kind of place<br>or as if it wants to takeoff with a wild wind<br>while the darkness of the city stretches out wide, <br>I wonder where people go soulless; <br>it's night with a very small crescent moon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's night with a very small crescent moon<br>that hangs somewhat shameful in the darkness, <br>at places shadows catch my eyes, <br>with popular branches swishing about, <br>I can swear something is following me for a while, <br>somewhere something hisses like a cat or snake, <br>I stretch my steps and am far too scared<br>to look back or now to stop walking, <br>it's as if something is suddenly blowing in my neck, <br>now I am afraid, my arm hairs raise<br>and I hear the churchyard gate moaning shrilly<br>while I am in a much greater hurry, <br>against my back there's a cold shiver, <br>with open eyes I pray for God to protect me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With open eyes I pray for God to protect me, <br>see some old tramps standing around a fire<br>when a black cat suddenly moans next to me, <br>while I see coals with flames rising.<br>It's only a big cat moving next to me<br>and I bend down and stroke it gently, <br>it's no unearthly kind of thing<br>as I had imagined, <br>above us stars are blazing the night full, <br>prostitutes triple on like display-dolls, <br>on the horizon lights are red, yellow and white<br>one whistles at me while I pass them, <br>three stand astride arguing with each other, <br>one girl draws up her blouse and I walk past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One girl draws up her blouse and I walk past, <br>I see breasts in their finest detail, <br>wonder how people live in this godless city, <br>every thing is getting worse than it had been.<br>I am alone and almost late<br>to get bread and milk at the Spar<br>and I cross the busy street, <br>hear them call in a choir at me<br>where one of the girls pulls her skirt up<br>showing her legs and a white panty, <br>trying her best to arouse desires, <br>I catch the smell of vinegar, chips and aniseed<br>while she begs: Come along with me; <br>the twilight is framed and covered in black.</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>
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The twilight is framed and covered in black, 
drawn closed on the one side, 
when suddenly it carries blue-white thunder
that burns sparking, it's deadly risky, 
where no sign of any moon
rise up against the closed night sky, 
there are only th..."></div>
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