<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=490375" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Like A Cloud</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">like a cloud<br>i change shapes <br>cumulus, nimbus, <br>feathers and cottons </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i mirror myself on a pond<br>and begin to like myself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the reeds look at me<br>with disdain<br>and the rocks there<br>speak ill of me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">no matter how beautiful<br>i am<br>be it the shape of David<br>or of Narcissus</div><div style="margin:10px 0">always everything i am<br>what i have<br>they claim them to be owned by the wind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they say the wind makes me<br>the wind unmakes me and i am left<br>with nothing<br>but just the illusion of a cloud</div><div style="margin:10px 0">doubt, i now have them and i am lost<br>in an island without a name</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like a cloud i wander <br>higher than the cliffs and friend of the sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the wind claims me and still i am nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is no use for all these<br>i have loved the wind and learned to live with its daft<br>i love the wind and its song<br>its distance and its intimacies with my hues</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but with the wind i am nothing i have none <br>all of them disbelieved my right to be myself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am wandering and wishing upon the stones<br>i fall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am rain i am the water in the gutter<br>i flow<br>searching for the place where i can be myself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">distinct like a mole on a cheek<br>there is no wind to claim my shape and color</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sad, i am still nothing, as empty as a hand opening<br>pleading for space and air, i am still nothing.</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=490375" data-title="Like A Cloud de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="like a cloud i change shapes cumulus, nimbus, feathers and cottons i mirror myself on a pond and begin to like myself the reeds look at me with disdain and the rocks there speak ill of me no matter how beautiful i am be it the shape of David..."></div> </div> </div>

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