<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484875" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Ponderous Moment...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">at the point somewhere between<br>loneliness and<br>independence, one settles on faraway places, <br>to see how things are<br>from a distance, and you soon find out</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is you that seeks the company of others, <br>spends for their drinks, caters for their caprices, <br>enslaved and deprived, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is you that has behaved as the insufficient one<br>always begging for<br>a relationship, and you conclude that you have<br>always been<br>the lonelier than before</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the insecure one, looking for others' entertainment<br>dependent as an accessory metal to<br>their diamond natures, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but it will only be for a time, soon<br>you discover it and fight back, <br>i mean, <br>you begin to question your own behavior, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you shy away, feeling guilty about your<br>weaker side, and you begin to build the fences again<br>to make a good neighbor<br>of yourself, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you write in your journal, <br>i have always been<br>a defeatist, needing always the hands of others, <br>those that press upon me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">choke me and had almost killed me<br>those whose arms have become ropes around<br>my neck</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you quit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> you ponder again.<br>you look at the stars at night and marvel upon<br>the distances of each</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and their solemn silence<br>their pride and self-esteem<br>always whole, glittering, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">against the darkness of the<br>universe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=484875" data-title="A Ponderous Moment... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="at the point somewhere between loneliness and independence, one settles on faraway places, to see how things are from a distance, and you soon find out it is you that seeks the company of others, spends for their drinks, caters for their capric..."></div> </div> </div>

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