<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471555" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Chased</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The road slithered like a forked tongue<br>Fueled by loathe and love unabashedly<br>The gust blew eternally to wallow dusts<br>That sleeps soundly and invited subtly<br>Like a red lasso in this dark limbo<br>So I succumb into it; I am ephemeral! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I chase the incisive gliding of the sun<br>And mangled through the unbreakable darkness<br>But it is I who shatter and tear in the impasse<br>Floundering without directions in a sea<br>Where the lost musing was devoured<br>And for all the reasoning and unreasoning<br>The relentless and callow machinations<br>That built a life of daunted convictions<br>And mundane propositions, corrupted<br>What grounds have you not altered<br>With your pliant hands? What road is left<br>Untouched by the sap of hope, of life? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have I not let you be? The road chases me<br>And my escape cycled into a fatal circle<br>Where guilt sew forever, where holes unclose<br>To accommodate deadly words</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gauche stomping resounded voices<br>And the roofless world lamented along<br>And I ran futilely, I endeavored to safety; <br>I ran, with a withered heart<br>I ran, with a wretched heart, <br>I ran, with a tired heart, <br>I ran away from a perfidious heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I coiled for death tonight as my legs ached<br>And shriveled from the despondent chance<br>And to death I salute and raise the glass<br>For in its mausoleum I may find peace<br>Or sliver asunder at least.</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=471555" data-title="The Chased de Norman Santos" data-description="The road slithered like a forked tongue Fueled by loathe and love unabashedly The gust blew eternally to wallow dusts That sleeps soundly and invited subtly Like a red lasso in this dark limbo So I succumb into it; I am ephemeral! I chase the in..."></div> </div> </div>

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