<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492435" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Remembering An Old English Teacher</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i look at him<br>he has only one tooth left and his face is like a tin roof<br>corrugated with too much heat and pressure<br>i do not blame it with the english grammar that he once taught <br>us with rigidity, <br>his degeneration or <br>degradation has something to do <br>with the way the walls around him<br>kepping him away<br>from the glow of the world and the glitter of everything that he is <br>supposed to own and <br>behold, <br>i look at him<br>his running nose cannot be stopped by any handkerchief<br>that i gifted him on his <br>78th birthday, he does not want to use any gift, he does not want<br>to remember the good old days, <br>he wishes a happy death he said this on the nth time<br>i detest this kind of <br>unwanted endings, but i look at him again, this time i utter<br>empathy<br>what can i give this old man so i can repay him what he had given<br>when words were so hard to understand<br>so harder to use with facility? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i look at him again<br>his eyes are tired wanting to get eternal sleep<br>his hands are shaking like a face refusing everything <br>turning clockwise and counterclockwise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he wants to die but he just cannot<br>i look at him and now i am willing to give him all my fears.</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=492435" data-title="Remembering An Old English Teacher de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="i look at him he has only one tooth left and his face is like a tin roof corrugated with too much heat and pressure i do not blame it with the english grammar that he once taught us with rigidity, his degeneration or degradation has something t..."></div> </div> </div>

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