<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460325" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We read the world wrong...'...worse than that...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes – we read the world wrong, <br>and say that it deceives us, <br>said Tagore…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">just imagine, if the snake said, <br>you can’t see me… no, I’m just<br>a stick of rotting wood, <br>a length of old rope thrown away, <br>mouldering in the undergrowth…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or the rope said, I’m reborn! <br>I’m now a snake, I’ve risen in intelligence<br>and consciousness – watch out, all those<br>who treated me so harshly as a rope...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or the shell said, how beautiful I am! <br>I’m mirrored all like silver; <br>once I was a humble shell, <br>content to be myself; now -<br>how precious now I am! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or the silver coin said, <br>I’ll hide here in the sand<br>and look like mother-of-pearl, nacreous, <br>and wait to give myself<br>to some delighted beggar…<br>how virtuous I am; and how<br>rewarded I shall be! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">no, Nature, prakriti, has never learned<br>from Man, how to deceive…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ah, but mankind… how we deceive<br>our mother, Nature… we promised her<br>we would look after her in her old age…<br>but all we did was steal her wealth, <br>cast her into a filthy wilderness, <br>pretend to others that<br>she never was of our family<br>but an untouchable who works for us…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">oh Rabindranath, what would you think<br>of the behaviour of your grand-children…<br>oh Rabindranath, you never guessed<br>how we’ve deceived our world…</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=460325" data-title="We read the world wrong...'...worse than that... de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Yes – we read the world wrong, and say that it deceives us, said Tagore… just imagine, if the snake said, you can’t see me… no, I’m just a stick of rotting wood, a length of old rope thrown away, mouldering in the undergrowth… o..."></div> </div> </div>

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