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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=489409" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If You Read</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you read me <br>In my lines you begin <br>To understand what <br>I write about & <br>Perhaps what I am <br>That would be <br>So ordinary <br>A matter only of clarification. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you read me, however <br>Carefully <br>in between <br>My lines, <br>and go deeper <br>To hidden symbols <br>And find some meanings <br>You will find <br>something <br>Else, something not <br>Me but sounding like <br>Me and you will begin to have doubts <br>If it is really me <br>Or I am just <br>Bluffing <br>Misleading you <br>For something else <br>So that you <br>Do not grasp me <br>At all, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and if you begin <br>to <br>Doubt it, <br>well, it could be that it was <br>Done on purpose <br>i <br>Wanting to achieve <br>A little <br>dramatization <br>Of what I am, <br>For some little <br>Thrills <br>Some gigs <br>Or gimmicks <br>We all love these <br>Tragic plays <br>Most of the <br>The time. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But sometimes, <br>For you to know me <br>I write about you, <br>You are <br>in some lines <br>talking about me, <br>and it is quite <br>challenging, <br>me finding you <br>to elaborate me, <br>and this one <br>would be a little bit <br>complicated, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You become <br>so confused <br>And even be paranoid <br>About this twist of <br>Things <br>Some turning points <br>Which may <br>Even be mistaken <br>As an identity <br>Crisis or a mental <br>Disorder, <br>Why do I have <br>To be spoken of <br>By another <br>Personality <br>As you or any other <br>Organism, <br>Sometimes a bird, <br>Or a fish, <br>Or even things in nature, <br>Like a cloud, <br>Or the wind, or the <br>Sea, or the <br>Sun or even the coldness <br>Of the night, <br>Where I can always <br>Be there in such <br>A hazy form <br>Or in opaque shapes, <br>And yet so essentially me <br>And so very like us, <br>And such questions as <br>Why <br>May even be answered <br>In that kind <br>Of reading, <br>About me <br>And you <br>And this world where we are always <br>In a situation. <br>Well I do not wish <br>To complicate matters more <br>Like this is some kind <br>Of a treasure hunt <br>With lots of signs <br>And symbols <br>And some missing links, <br>In a sense <br>I want clarity, <br>I need simplicity, <br>To drive my points clear <br>So that when you read <br>Me in short crisp lines <br>You grasp me directly <br>Like <br>A traffic sign <br>Red for stop <br>Green for go <br>And yellow for a while, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in truth, <br>Things and matters and me and you <br>Are not that really simple <br>And as such <br>We cannot be so simplistic <br>And at the same time <br>Do justice to this and that <br>This you and me, this world, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But perhaps reading <br>Is not just that, <br>Not just knowing me <br>Or reducing me to a <br>Simple conclusion, <br>Reading me <br>Could simply be an enjoyment <br>Or a plain reading <br>For curiosity or <br>Even for just a perusal, <br>As I am not even <br>Worth reading at all, <br>A waste of your <br>Precious time, <br>You are busy, <br>But some lines may strike <br>You or shake you <br>Or develop a certain <br>Familiarity, of such things <br>Like this once happened to me <br>Or that I once said these lines <br>Or that I once thought <br>The same thoughts, <br>A sense of home <br>A sense of déjà vu <br>A sense of I am just like you <br>In the same situation, <br>That we are on the same boat <br>On a stormy sea, tossed <br>By this fate, <br>This commonality of failures, <br>And so you are <br>Interested for common reasons, <br>In a way that I search for myself, <br>You are also searching for <br>Yourself, <br>And once I talk of this <br>Loneliness, this sickness <br>Unto death, you ring a bell, <br>You are also <br>Feeling the same, <br>And we come together <br>Searching for the cure, <br>Or you at the end, <br>Would simply be <br>Wishing that we will have the same <br>Kind of fate, <br>A survival, <br>A victory, <br>A success, <br>A shout for joy, a shout for discovery. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But on the other hand, <br>that would be so <br>Selfish and we do not <br>Glorify selfishness, <br>as it <br>Is not a commendable <br>trait, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We humans are <br>humanitarian <br>We always care, <br>we always love <br>We always have <br>affection <br>For another, so </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you read me, <br>really, as a <br>Good natured <br>human being <br>With a soul, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You read me, <br>With sympathy, <br>You empathize <br>You cry in sad poem, <br>You laugh <br>In humorous ones, <br>You get <br>Glorified in glorious ones, <br>you <br>Become a part of me, <br>and I become a <br>part of you, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">well, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">being <br>One with each other, <br>but, I still <br>Doubt it, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you read, <br>because <br>You simply check whether <br>This poem is good, <br>or making some <br>Sense, <br>or this poet <br>makes a <br>Mark for good poetry, <br>which <br>To me, is nothing but <br>Hypocrisy, <br>utilitarian, <br>and <br>Too <br>academic. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In truth, <br>I write, <br>not wanting <br>To be read, <br>not so inviting to <br>Any reader, <br>You read me <br>With a risk </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if you read me, <br>I am telling you, <br>Frankly, <br>I do not invite you, <br>You came <br>You gate crashed <br>Me, and you are <br>Never my guest </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are simply <br>misinformed, <br>coming here, <br>I do not know <br>You and <br>you do not <br>know me, and <br>I will fault you <br>For this intrusion, <br>And that would be <br>Too arrogant <br>& cruel of me <br>telling you <br>to stop reading <br>and leave me <br>at once. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Actually, this is it <br>If you read me <br>As you read this poem <br>Just read, <br>For no purpose, <br>No vested <br>Interest, <br>You read, <br>Because you have nothing to do <br>With me <br>And I have <br>Nothing to do with you <br>We have nothing <br>To do with <br>All these <br>This life <br>This poetry </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is <br>Not because <br>You are hunting for <br>Some animals, <br>Put them on a cage <br>Or kill them <br>For meat <br>Or consider the stuffed heads <br>The tigers and <br>lions and <br>Gazelles <br>as your trophies of your adventures <br>on a safari of life <br>Or marks of your <br>Civilized cruelty </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are here because <br>you just pass by <br>And want to read <br>this poem <br>for a while <br>You read <br>me <br>in passing, <br>I see you passing by….. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is a matter of feeling not knowing me at all.</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. 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In my lines you begin 
To understand what 
I write about & 
Perhaps what I am 
That would be 
So ordinary 
A matter only of clarification. 

If you read me, however 
Carefully 
in between 
My lines, 
and go deeper 
To hidden symbol..."></div>
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