<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471110" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Anthology</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have learned to subsist<br>Barricaded by dominoes<br>Buoyed in isolation, and<br>Purged from treacherous marriages; <br>I have learned to get through<br>Without praying to a God<br>With no hopes for sedation<br>And no strings of expectation; <br>I have learned to breathe<br>Half-alive, half-dead<br>Disparate from the crowd<br>Flimsy with steadfast imposition; <br>And then I met people<br>In books and poems, <br>And I met these familiar emotions<br>In their phrases and lines, <br>And at the bud of cigarettes, <br>Underneath acid bottles, <br>And in corporeal flesh; <br>In vicarious situations, <br>And acquiesced sensations<br>And sedations—<br>Sangfroid dwellers<br>Of the poignant universe<br>Who had taught me <br>To turn everything over<br>And that prancing lions<br>Only makes me bold<br>And despondence <br>Only gives me faith<br>Making me feel safer<br>Dragging me to the bright side<br>But what happens <br>After the sunrise? <br>I learned, in existence, <br>To suppress fear<br>And hope, and its corollaries<br>And now it's dawning clear: <br>Fear is the heart of it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+Santos">Norman Santos</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=471110" data-title="Anthology de Norman Santos" data-description="I have learned to subsist Barricaded by dominoes Buoyed in isolation, and Purged from treacherous marriages; I have learned to get through Without praying to a God With no hopes for sedation And no strings of expectation; I have learned to breat..."></div> </div> </div>

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