<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471656" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Truce</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your nacreous eyes is a mirror<br>Palled by a multitude of horror<br>A window swung open<br>But shuttered by a void emptiness<br>In its hazel glaze I implored<br>My own lifeless reflection<br>Still - like a metallic lake<br>Concealing a surreptitious daemon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whilst the myopia of vision won<br>And stifled any sanguine climate<br>We never batted an eyelash<br>In hope for a drifting light<br>And in fear of total eclipse</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So eye to eye, we confabulated<br>With metaphors and false-analogies<br>As our thoughts morph into blindness<br>White as oblivion and black as its shadow<br>Piercing the robust chamber of life<br>And the angel's panacea slewed<br>Into the squalid gutters, it burned<br>With a pang that perpetuates<br>Like your voice, when you assured<br>That crows are black<br>And pigeons maybe white, <br>Maybe gray, maybe colorless<br>And you contended to bring a light<br>In the ubiquity of shades</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But our eyes are older than the hills<br>That sans our chains and suppressed<br>Our inner lamentations<br>And this struggle to put up<br>With your vindictive stares<br>Defiles my inner sanctum<br>For the fortification you gave me<br>Is now a bastion against your assaults</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And truce, I call, upon this white flag<br>To all the venomous foreseeing, <br>To all the harlequin tears, <br>To all the forgotten spur, <br>To all the farce destruction</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shut my eyes tonight<br>To sleep and relearn: <br>Reset the ways<br>Of the scathing Braille.</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=471656" data-title="Truce de Norman Santos" data-description="Your nacreous eyes is a mirror Palled by a multitude of horror A window swung open But shuttered by a void emptiness In its hazel glaze I implored My own lifeless reflection Still - like a metallic lake Concealing a surreptitious daemon Whilst th..."></div> </div> </div>

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