<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=493016" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>So Often</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">we are caught empty handed<br>and time laughs and then asks: what have you done to your collar? <br>it is destructive of your neck<br>it is choking you and you still say you like the color of the buttons</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we are caught so afraid and we are silent about this<br>and time begins to frown<br>and leaves us all<br>askance, and we ask what fraudulent creeping scorpion<br>has time become</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it bites and takes a portion of our limbs<br>but then<br>we also learn this kind of game and time confronts us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we know what it will say<br>and we are ready with our silence too<br>after all<br>time was never a friend<br>all along it has always been a foe<br>giving us that feeling of slippery eels<br>those thorny porcupines<br>those roses that enthuses us only for a while</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then we are again reminded of the wilting<br>and the passing away<br>of what we think belongs to us</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=493016" data-title="So Often de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="we are caught empty handed and time laughs and then asks: what have you done to your collar? it is destructive of your neck it is choking you and you still say you like the color of the buttons we are caught so afraid and we are silent about thi..."></div> </div> </div>

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