<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471505" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Snakes and Ladders</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The spigot that you opened<br>profusely bled upon its frailty<br>seducing leprous hope<br>festering from the very roots<br>taken for granted<br>like prayers sent forth<br>your own bastion<br>riding the crest of waves<br>oblivious of these lamentations<br>You pour and pour<br>and buoy whilst I sank<br>in your eloquent etude</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before your eyes<br>the pendulum swings<br>in a monosyllabic hymn<br>a shotgun darting through<br>the clean lines of dancing<br>through the limbo<br>of self-defeat<br>and self-centeredness<br>and like a defunct clock<br>I wallowed with your <br>sporadic and lusty<br>clockwork hands<br>jumping in a brawl against<br>the soldiers of dementia</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From flamboyant arguments<br>to lean conversations<br>the tethers weaken<br>and broke the linkage<br>between our charades<br>there was nothing left<br>in you - but that is a lie<br>feigning a valor<br>to jump into the eyes<br>of a famished abyss<br>where the aeons rung<br>the ladders, the snakes: <br>the venoms and the staves<br>that we tried to play<br>but conquered us instead</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a connoisseur of espionage<br>you made yourself estranged<br>like a crow perched<br>on a leafless tree standing<br>in a sunless chasm, your plumes<br>devoured everything<br>and the memories now distant<br>bore a mystified desire<br>to engage in an odyssey<br>away from the light<br>and still, like a child's defense; <br>cringing inside<br>I sought to be found</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=471505" data-title="Snakes and Ladders de Norman Santos" data-description="The spigot that you opened profusely bled upon its frailty seducing leprous hope festering from the very roots taken for granted like prayers sent forth your own bastion riding the crest of waves oblivious of these lamentations You pour and pour a..."></div> </div> </div>

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