<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471237" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ephemeral</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lying awake at night I probed <br>For hidden pockets and alleyways, <br>Searched for every lighted window, <br>Prayed for unlocked gates, <br>And hoped to find a devil to blame <br>To exonerate you and our bellicose collision <br>To purge the most beautiful stair<br>That I was permitted to ascend<br>And in kindness, carefully descended</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I endlessly searched<br>Until I forgot to count weeks, <br>Forgot my reasoning, <br>And forgot the pendulum swings<br>To rive us with decadence, senescence <br>Riveted in this malady of guilt and regret</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I search for a demon to blame<br>I was ensnared in their spider web<br>As they formed inside my heart<br>A malignant cancer poisoning<br>Every blood, every pulsating, <br>Every inflating or deflating, <br>I have become what I needed<br>So I incarcerated myself: <br>A warden and a prison<br>Born in search of liberation<br>In a lost struggle<br>And now at nights<br>I become a soliloquy<br>Demented from everyone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If this is the last page of the water<br>The final absolution, the final thought, <br>The final charade in letting go<br>Of the chances that I arduously averted<br>Maybe tonight I will find the courage<br>To break the last vault left, <br>Where white seraphic wings are frozen<br>Like bloomed parasols in mid-air <br>A vanguard to innocence and purity<br>Caught in the gelid deferral of demise<br>And when I find that all these lovely things <br>Are all ephemeral; will I leave this place<br>And never come again to its glacial sting?</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=471237" data-title="Ephemeral de Norman Santos" data-description="Lying awake at night I probed For hidden pockets and alleyways, Searched for every lighted window, Prayed for unlocked gates, And hoped to find a devil to blame To exonerate you and our bellicose collision To purge the most beautiful stair T..."></div> </div> </div>

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