<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413804" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Escape Mechanism</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was in pain, in agony<br> and saw no way to gain relief.<br>Then all at once I seemed to be<br> beside myself quite literally. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Some how I had escaped my pain<br> just left my agony behind<br>so I was comfortable again.<br>I thought at first I was insane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet I knew I was still me <br>but by some magic of my mind.<br>I had escaped I’d struggled free.<br>Although it felt quite strange to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My body sitting in my chair.<br>To see myself from the outside.<br> As though I was both here and there.<br>I found it rather hard to bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wondered then if I had died <br>and that was how I came to be<br>Observing myself from outside<br> I understood I must decide</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I had a choice to be pain free<br>and leave the life I knew behind.<br>I chose somewhat reluctantly<br> and I returned immediately.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back to the inside looking out <br>I don’t pretend to understand <br>what happened but I have no doubt.<br>Although I rarely talk about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day I found that I could be<br> in two places at one time.<br>Experience simultaneously <br>to be pain wracked and be pain free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sometimes voluntarliy<br>decide to take a holiday<br> from aches and pains which distress me. <br>Be pain free temporarily.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All men must die and so will I, <br> I do not let it worry me. <br>But until then I can but try<br> to bear my suffering patiently.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When it gets to much to bear<br> I close my eyes and I escape<br> to somewhere else I‘m not sure where <br>nor do I think I really care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1-Oct-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: // blog.myspace.com/poticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=413804" data-title="Escape Mechanism de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="I was in pain, in agony and saw no way to gain relief. Then all at once I seemed to be beside myself quite literally. Some how I had escaped my pain just left my agony behind so I was comfortable again. I thought at first I was insane. And ..."></div> </div> </div>

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