<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471644" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tom and Fatima</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw your warm footprints, Fatima<br>They lingered in the sinking quartz<br>Stalled within the quaint wonder<br>That crossed this parceled paper<br>I saw them, standing with the colossus<br>Unruffled in the vapid slough of fire<br>A crawling inferno of treacherous<br>Skirmish waltz of phantom swords<br>And from this florid vantage<br>My solemn eyes rolled in naivety <br>To find my own footprints<br>Meandering supply and aimlessly<br>Caught in the inebriated throttle<br>Of the feral roars of hope<br>Traversing the dampen moss<br>Until abeyance congealed<br>When I saw our prints dissipate<br>As it crossed the enigma<br>Of the cesspool of ignorance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I scampered through the desert<br>That bit my tongue and burnt my feet<br>The mackerel sky threw my bitter dreams<br>Into a pond that gnawed at my sanity<br>Like an army of piranhas<br>That got to open their mouths<br>For the first time; blood-shed partied<br>Into the distance were crystals<br>That warned me: it would cut and kill<br>But I didn't care for the signs<br>Trampling upon plastic daisies<br>And dissolved colors into fake waters<br>I reached out for your echo<br>Hoping my mind, an impetus<br>To make you tangible enough to hold<br>So tell me, dear Tom; <br>Now that we're past the fire<br>And slowly sinking into the icicles<br>Of better musings and melodious muteness<br>How do you do?</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=471644" data-title="Tom and Fatima de Norman Santos" data-description="I saw your warm footprints, Fatima They lingered in the sinking quartz Stalled within the quaint wonder That crossed this parceled paper I saw them, standing with the colossus Unruffled in the vapid slough of fire A crawling inferno of treacherous..."></div> </div> </div>

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