<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=485022" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Silver Platter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the silver platter is what your family gives you<br>your father makes it and you mother polishes it<br>and you are given what you need<br>in your life<br>some fruits and bread and meat and water<br>that you need in your journey when they start sending you away and <br>when they finally leave you<br>as what this world demands, the usual flow of life and the fading<br>death, and you find yourself still <br>thinking and coping and running and stopping and resting and running and walking and curling and stretching what <br>is all there, <br>then everything is consumed, the silver platter has nothing, tarnished<br>and you begin to worry<br>what used to be is not anymore, <br>you think life ends just like that, <br>no</div><div style="margin:10px 0">reality bites now, like a snake, or a rabid dog, and you despise the <br>silver platter<br>its lasting effect on you, how it made you weak and unthinking, <br>complacent<br>and unable to grow your trees and eat the fruits<br>to raise your goats and eat their meat<br>to live your own life<br>and be strong yourself in the darkness that comes<br>when you still want to play</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is not too late, take the silver platter and throw it away<br>or bury it<br>lest another one comes and takes it and be another victim<br>of its temporary glow that almost killed you</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=485022" data-title="A Silver Platter de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="the silver platter is what your family gives you your father makes it and you mother polishes it and you are given what you need in your life some fruits and bread and meat and water that you need in your journey when they start sending you away a..."></div> </div> </div>

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