<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=485205" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Wound On His Forehead</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">he scratched it accidentally<br>perhaps when he was asleep<br>as he was wont<br>to raise his arms on his forehead, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and with uncut nails<br>he caused a wound therein<br>infected by his carelessness<br>his hand touching<br>barely almost anything dirty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he looks at himself on the mirror<br>studying<br>the gaping wound like an<br>eye staring back at him<br>asking</div><div style="margin:10px 0">why should a man raise his hands<br>even when asleep? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and why should he wound himself<br>unnecessarily? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">why does he not care about<br>the possibility of the complexity of an infection<br>that may even<br>cause his death? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">is this the kind of surrender<br>he had dreamed of inside his dream? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">his way of finally giving up life<br>since it left him with nothing to offer? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">he looks at himself closely<br>now, he becomes a strange man staring at<br>another man he thought<br>he knew too well.</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=485205" data-title="A Wound On His Forehead de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="he scratched it accidentally perhaps when he was asleep as he was wont to raise his arms on his forehead, and with uncut nails he caused a wound therein infected by his carelessness his hand touching barely almost anything dirty he looks at him..."></div> </div> </div>

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