<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=485055" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A State Of Being Not Yourself</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">what makes him humiliated<br>after a compromising situation<br>where he restrains the movement of his body<br>like a machine shut off from an<br>electrical source is this: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">he has voluntarily renounced <br>the true nature of his being<br>like a fish unable to use its fins<br>a bud that is tight lipped and cannot<br>bloom<br>a wind of ice<br>a sea denied of its journey<br>its waves scraped like an<br>infected skin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how you have such a mouth that cannot open? <br>words that remain in the books<br>deprived of some meaning? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the loquacious monster on the other side of the table<br>where he is seated<br>is soap bubbling giving you an illusion of a child's game<br>too unbecoming and unlikely of one <br>like you who has always the<br>reputation of free speech<br>there are souls that hold your mind<br>pulling your hair<br>and tying your hands to the arms of the chair<br>for centuries<br>your respect for all these is not diminished</div><div style="margin:10px 0">self-denial is another principle<br>that made a Gandhi great<br>now you are trying to question it<br>because<br>it hurts.</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=485055" data-title="A State Of Being Not Yourself de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="what makes him humiliated after a compromising situation where he restrains the movement of his body like a machine shut off from an electrical source is this: he has voluntarily renounced the true nature of his being like a fish unable to use ..."></div> </div> </div>

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