<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471415" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Obstinacy and Malcontent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Livid and delusional, <br>Haplessly obdurate, <br>Like these smoke and mirrors<br>Distorting the visage of hope<br>And faith in prayers sent forth<br>Whilst the coruscations of the past<br>Inveigles the doom in these eyes<br>And I exhumed myself alone<br>In declining my liberation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This obstinacy and malcontent<br>Deluges with the brine of blood<br>From angry vessels rooted<br>And gnarled in the dark corners<br>Of the cobwebbed heart<br>Because in this pawned life<br>Where satisfaction is a drug<br>To forget the querulous vertex <br>(To be complete not only in the dark) <br>The coup-de-grace was a dejection<br>An unspoken unfaithfulness<br>That devoured the flame<br>And the verdigris of the soul<br>Disemboguing everything<br>Until the only resolve for pain<br>Is the sedation in a greater pain; <br>A wrath that defends<br>This obstinacy and malcontent<br>That was once acknowledged <br>And fortified with sympathy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The resentment of the light<br>Dislimned the mirror in these eyes<br>And exhausted the smoky screen<br>To unfurl that the dark<br>Had always been underneath<br>These placidly asleep canopies<br>Now how do I rectify my truth? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like these smoke and mirrors<br>I hid inside myself, unscathed<br>Groveling for a final clout<br>So I can shatter into dusts<br>And finally disappear<br>In my absolution.</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=471415" data-title="Obstinacy and Malcontent de Norman Santos" data-description="Livid and delusional, Haplessly obdurate, Like these smoke and mirrors Distorting the visage of hope And faith in prayers sent forth Whilst the coruscations of the past Inveigles the doom in these eyes And I exhumed myself alone In declining my ..."></div> </div> </div>

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