<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425413" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Parenthesis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright mirror which sheds light on silent screen, <br>impartial witness to ephemeris, <br>another day reflects on other scene, <br>and never breathes a hint of that or this, -<br>a silver slate which undisturbed has been<br>awaits mercurial metamorphosis.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mirror reflects men’s absence, slate wiped clean, <br>with birth and death, ecstatic wedded bliss<br>traces stayed from Lethe’s grim demesne<br>scarce an instant. Swiftly we dismiss<br>this sweetest memory, that pain most keen, -<br>can love transcend, bend, challenge Time’s abyss? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The player gamely plays, acts out last scene, <br>indifferent to applause or heckler’s hiss, -<br>before [s]he’s buried someone slips between<br>the lines, into old shoes, yet who will miss<br>a century ahead King’s head or Queen, <br>love’s kiss, pride, honour vain, or cowardice? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A puff of Time, - time as time’s bluff is seen, -<br>sees Life Time’s capsule in parenthesis.<br>The stuff of life an empty stuffing, gene, -<br>transfer template, tomorrow’s synthesis.<br>Yet who returns for encore ex-machine? <br>Tomorrow? - Well, tomorrow’s parting kiss<br>sets springboard for fresh ripples' ripples bis, <br>for new tomorrows proving Man remiss...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</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=425413" data-title="In Parenthesis de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Bright mirror which sheds light on silent screen, impartial witness to ephemeris, another day reflects on other scene, and never breathes a hint of that or this, - a silver slate which undisturbed has been awaits mercurial metamorphosis. Mirro..."></div> </div> </div>

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