<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=487907" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For All These That I See Today</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">wilted grass on the pasture land<br>emaciated water buffaloes <br>dried river beds<br>the well without water<br>humid air and dusty roads<br>to the village on a rice shortage<br>birds in flocks moving away<br>sick babies and panicky mothers<br>hopeless fathers thinking about<br>another revolution</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a government stripped of moral authority<br>arming itself strengthening wire fences<br>building more walls and students out-of-school</div><div style="margin:10px 0">muted press and more speeches from the <br>political departments justifying reason</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for all these that i see today<br>i have seen them all yesterday<br>during my youth my rebel days<br>when i was not so careful then<br>when i never thought of the danger<br>when i though i do not die</div><div style="margin:10px 0">history unfolds again before me<br>we are not strangers we are in fact on a familiarity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how can we ever talk like friends again? <br>how can i run away from society for the second time? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">how can i vomit and eat all these rancid food <br>these spoils, these trash, this enormous silence?</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=487907" data-title="For All These That I See Today de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="wilted grass on the pasture land emaciated water buffaloes dried river beds the well without water humid air and dusty roads to the village on a rice shortage birds in flocks moving away sick babies and panicky mothers hopeless fathers thinking a..."></div> </div> </div>

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