<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471554" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Beginning To Every End</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll never understand why<br>I have been saved from the squall<br>Against the mellifluous beating of the tides<br>I reckoned of the unthinkable</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ocean sang its master plan<br>And the gale called your names<br>While I stood, left unmoored<br>Hands tightly curled on the oars<br>Without any defense, the sea<br>That we conquered, conquered you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew, like a beautiful climate<br>It would pass uncommitted <br>But I never have surmised<br>The inclement weather brought<br>By the saline resurging<br>And the obfuscation in the sea<br>Dazed my maps and memory</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I rivaled the weather<br>Until I was threadbare<br>As hapless as a paper boat<br>Winding in the funneling stream<br>Decaying with every advance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We struggled and contended<br>But it seems that the beginning<br>Was the only place I was needed<br>And when all was recuperated<br>The sea defenestrated my part<br>And sculled new contours and waves<br>To begin its cold and stark end</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I will not be unheeded<br>As I effaced my own memories<br>And in this fray we splinter<br>Our own monoliths<br>And they tarnish them in me<br>As I tarnish me in them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea beckoned finally<br>And all is drowned<br>In a vertiginous demise.</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=471554" data-title="The Beginning To Every End de Norman Santos" data-description="I'll never understand why I have been saved from the squall Against the mellifluous beating of the tides I reckoned of the unthinkable The ocean sang its master plan And the gale called your names While I stood, left unmoored Hands tightly curled..."></div> </div> </div>

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