<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Waiting Room</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I lay, pensively, dying<br>Beneath the seething graze of the sun, <br>In a metaphorical metamorphism, <br>I found myself, in films, meandering<br>Like a white eccentric and fictional lion<br>Dashing through the endless pitch<br>Hollowness of an ornate forest<br>The insipid beast teemed with fear<br>And not of valiance, as in the label<br>In this pocket of a gyratory cul-de-sac<br>The ghosts, glacial and searing, <br>Runs along with my buoyant feet<br>Their wails struck the barricades<br>Of the looming myrtle trees<br>And an echolalia came to life<br>In its corporeal form, a wintry<br>Pang that gnawed upon my chest<br>And I ran faster, like a frenzied fiend<br>‘Till I saw an opalescent stranger<br>With a lamp on his rooted feet<br>And a knowing smile to trust<br>His ghastly fingers pierced<br>To an escape door beneath<br>A virulent garden of mushrooms<br>Without hesitations, I advanced<br>And he was left there unaccompanied<br>With a broken and ghastly smile<br>A wave of oppressive light surges<br>In the starkness of the brand new alleys<br>I can almost stare back at their eyes<br>But in this estrangement, I fumbled<br>Severing the savvy of recuperation<br>Nausea ubiquitously hanged<br>On a noose for two heads<br>A tinge of wonder rested on the other—<br>Why did the spectral stranger<br>Never went for the escape door? <br>Perhaps he already knew<br>The drudgery in leisurely vying<br>To sprawl your qualms and quandaries<br>Inside a waiting room, half-alive.</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=471614" data-title="The Waiting Room de Norman Santos" data-description="As I lay, pensively, dying Beneath the seething graze of the sun, In a metaphorical metamorphism, I found myself, in films, meandering Like a white eccentric and fictional lion Dashing through the endless pitch Hollowness of an ornate forest The..."></div> </div> </div>

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