<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471518" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stranger Than Your Sympathy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our shades are obfuscated by our pretense<br>The metallic colours of your feathers<br>Frolicked in blue, violet and gray<br>While you glided and dived in the white<br>Pallor of amnesia and snide<br>The angst on my deadpanning face</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your tongue undulating like rails<br>Of rollercoaster charades<br>And the vertiginous spiel was left<br>Unanswered for I was daunted<br>By an aversive measure against the exodus<br>A defensive maneuver against the genesis<br>In my rage, in my face, in my daze</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in the dark any silhouette is a banister<br>And now that I trampled again unbeknownst<br>Ceaselessly into your ubiquitous shadow <br>I saw the true colour behind the blear<br>The mirage of your profuse skin<br>A massive black hole gravid<br>With the mendacity opposing your words</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leaden by the weight of this struggle<br>In finding pathways that leads back<br>To your crossroads - always met<br>By a perfidious water<br>Where nothing will ever sink</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How obstinate have you become? <br>How unyielding are your iron hands? <br>How selfish is your enamored eyes? <br>How different are you from you? <br>Perhaps I saw more, reeled bigger <br>Than what your florid tongue can guise<br>And with this I break upon you<br>Like an ancient stone erected<br>In a faceless void without a purpose<br>You were my fear personified<br>You were the floodgates that deluged<br>To take everything away from me<br>And whilst you roar with your revenge<br>I am caught in a different vortex<br>Calculating how we are the same<br>Our defenses and mendacious atrocity; <br>And how we are afraid to be different<br>And how we are defeated by this fear<br>Rendering our estranged sympathy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know you pleasure to read this<br>I've seen your vengeance once<br>Striding with arrogance<br>Past fading faces<br>But I know too; <br>Your vision is myopic<br>To ever try to bend backwards<br>Stranger than the lack of empathy.</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=471518" data-title="Stranger Than Your Sympathy de Norman Santos" data-description="Our shades are obfuscated by our pretense The metallic colours of your feathers Frolicked in blue, violet and gray While you glided and dived in the white Pallor of amnesia and snide The angst on my deadpanning face Your tongue undulating like ra..."></div> </div> </div>

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