<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459723" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Metaphors</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the unicorn, <br>they have to need to be; <br>to hear our need for them to be. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like time, <br>they must creep up on the writer, <br>on the reader, <br>invisible <br>yet with inevitability <br>which cannot be escaped. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like thieves, <br>they must enter unannounced, <br>take what they must. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like mice, <br>they must take up residence <br>until there is no longer sustenance for them. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like bailiffs, <br>they must demand entrance; <br>be admitted; <br>take their just exchange. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like housekeepers, <br>they must earn their keep <br>by keeping us in all we ask of them. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like lovers, <br>they must prove themselves <br>part of our lives <br>until our earthly sentence ends the dream. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like children, <br>they must know their place; <br>then be loved just for themselves <br>beyond life itself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like life: <br>revealing its boundlessness <br>in a landscape that stretches out, is limitless. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Writer - reader -<br>care for a metaphor as for one you love: <br>as you love yourself; <br>they are our life-blood: for they tell of what<br>can only be said quietly, with a touch of hand, <br>to those whose heart is listening.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459723" data-title="Metaphors de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Like the unicorn, they have to need to be; to hear our need for them to be. Like time, they must creep up on the writer, on the reader, invisible yet with inevitability which cannot be escaped. Like thieves, they must enter unannounced..."></div> </div> </div>

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