<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471246" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>False Hopes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A causeway of light arched supplely<br>Into the latencies of frittered days<br>Where I bargain for death obdurately<br>Sapping putrefaction placidly to decay<br>And perish from the unrivaled despondency<br>I muse the furlough of every passing day<br>But a causeway of light arched supplely<br>Suspending the black ribbon's sway</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oppressive condoles are salves of the defeated<br>And these rived my bones and hauled my soul<br>Out into the risqué nakedness of light to be diluted<br>Into a transparency of savage cajoles<br>For your sincerity lacked consistency, instead, <br>My vanguard and subterfuge you stole<br>But oppressive condoles are salves of the defeated<br>And in your ephemeral graze I still conceded</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The obsidian horizon feigned resilience<br>So I stifle my vessels to capture you ever closer<br>But the impervious distance was too dense<br>Inundated with your breath's blasé timber<br>And so we are splintered like dumb oxen by a fence<br>Gnawing on the grasses of perpetual Decembers<br>But the obsidian horizon feigned resilience<br>Without a moment of transition and encounter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ubiquitous farce convoluted<br>As I twisted at the feet of the forlorn<br>That I have woven for myself from deluded<br>Hopes of exoneration; emancipation from the mourn<br>The make believe infinity waned and percolated<br>To unlatch in my eyes the abysmal void<br>But the ubiquitous farce convoluted<br>And I remember your faces and the covenant sworn</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=471246" data-title="False Hopes de Norman Santos" data-description="A causeway of light arched supplely Into the latencies of frittered days Where I bargain for death obdurately Sapping putrefaction placidly to decay And perish from the unrivaled despondency I muse the furlough of every passing day But a causeway ..."></div> </div> </div>

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