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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476708" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It' A Gesture Of The Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's a gesture of the heart <br>that no one can explain <br>that lays its words down like cool herbs <br>gathered on the moon <br>to silver someone else's pain. <br>We lie down in the same wound <br>like two stones in the same river <br>that might make it to the other side <br>without drowning in the stream <br>and I speak to you of shores you can reach if you try <br>and you add yourself like a dropp of water to a shoreless sea, and cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And for a moment you are the devastated solitude <br>of a runaway in the rain<br>who can't abide the stranger she's become <br>as a lipstick butterfly emerges <br>from the shell-casing chrysalis of your rage<br>and you put your lips on like wings.<br>You're a princess with a white flag <br>approaching the ashes of a dragon <br>who sleeps in his own fires <br>to wake him up from his dream of water <br>and negotiate a rescue now <br>if only I'll concede to show you how.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You want me to respect you because you're dangerous.<br>You want to ensnare me <br>in the white voodoo you're practising<br>on the dark side of the moon, <br>you believe in my eyes <br>and want me to see something <br>you've never shown anyone before<br>because a window's as good as a door to a thief<br>and you know we have neither in this homelessness<br>that shelters our grief like dark matter in space<br>or the far side of a face <br>we refuse to acknowledge is ours.<br> <br>I can feel your powers <br>chafing their scales in the snakepit <br>like straitjackets they're urgently trying to slough off<br>like the old skins of a hand-me-down moon <br>that don't quite fit the new one right. <br>One fang, stars; the other, a starless night, <br>you know how to open things with a smile <br>and strike like a gate <br>should anyone walk between your crescents<br>like a terrorist with carry-on luggage <br>who doesn't dream he's been detected<br>as you recoil like a theme to make your point.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It would be easier to tinker with the genes<br>of the ancient ancestors of a life before sin<br>than not to want to sleep with you<br>like a thorn under the skin of your rose, <br>than not to want to be your bay for the night<br>and tell you everything's going to be all right <br>and mean it and drown the world like a torch or a dragon <br>in the intimacy of our most urgent delusions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And even if I didn't put a match to the candles <br>they would still ignite <br>and a black sun would rise at midnight <br>and let the stars and flowers decide for themselves <br>whether they wanted to open in its light or not, <br>and for awhile, deep underground, <br>there'd be laughter in a coffin<br>as we posted dirty notes on our headstones <br>like shocking love poems <br>that just rolled off the tip of our tongues<br>like drops of water charged with stars and snakefire <br>humming down our spines <br>like the deathbed hymns of the hydro lines<br>when they break the news to God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patrick+White">Patrick White</a><div class=q>
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that no one can explain 
that lays its words down like cool herbs 
gathered on the moon 
to silver someone else's pain. 
We lie down in the same wound 
like two stones in the same river 
that might make it to the other..."></div>
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