<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=411425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Voyage on the Dark Seas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ve seen all<br>I’ve heard all<br>I’ve absorbed all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Routine dawns fading into<br>Ruthless dusks into<br>Ravaging nights…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haven’t I heard <br>Nights wailing like<br>An abandoned infant<br>At the street end? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haven’t I felt <br>The leprous skin<br>Of the night—<br>Ugly and haunting? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haven’t I heard<br>The palpitating nights<br>Breaking into an<br>Uncontrollable sweat? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haven’t I seen <br>Nights showing defiance<br>In reluctant surrender<br>And cold embraces? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haven’t I seen<br>Nights raise in rebellion<br>Against an unwilling body<br>And disinclined mind? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haven’t I absorbed<br>Nights of callousness<br>Stomping me under <br>Hitler’s heavy boots? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I simply looked in disinterestedness<br>As night’s finger lifted with the pointedness<br>Of a cartographer to draw new lines of longitude <br>and latitude on the terrain of my skin-scape</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I simply looked in passivity<br>As nights wrapped me in a blanket of suspicion <br>And experimented with my emotional<br>And bodily contours…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haven’t I seen the ugly manifestations of <br>Dissatisfaction and jealous<br>And the elsewhere desires<br>Satiated through erotic zones? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This too I have seen: <br>Stark daylight mocking me<br>With its twisted lip</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No longer, I said<br>No more, I warned<br>Enough, I pronounced<br>Of this seemingly unending<br>Lonesome voyage through the dark seas </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that too have I seen...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">13mar2010<br>03.40hrs</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Indira+Babbellapati">Indira Babbellapati</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=411425" data-title="Voyage on the Dark Seas de Indira Babbellapati" data-description="I’ve seen all I’ve heard all I’ve absorbed all Routine dawns fading into Ruthless dusks into Ravaging nights… Haven’t I heard Nights wailing like An abandoned infant At the street end? Haven’t I felt The leprous skin Of the night..."></div> </div> </div>

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