<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=494007" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Compulsion To Settle For Simplicity....</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is no denying that as a native<br>i think like a native</div><div style="margin:10px 0">am no Englishman from <br>London Bridge<br>but a Bisayan from<br>Mindanao, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as such, i have no choice<br>but just to be myself, <br>in the utter simplicity of my language<br>translating myself<br>word by word in the nuances of<br>your Anglo-American world, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is this attempt to be a part of<br>your world</div><div style="margin:10px 0">did they say that Enlightenment? <br>that Genius of ideas<br>is only possible in your world<br>and not in the <br>land of my ancestors who know<br>nothing but only about spices and<br>spears and arrows and <br>jugs of wine and tattoos and<br>barbaric songs? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">let me say what i want to say<br>in a few vocabularies<br>you may not listen, but at least<br>i have spoken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am thus compelled for that <br>simplicity that allows me to write this way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because i have nothing more<br>to offer you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because what i have is only this<br>insistence to open my heart<br>and speak<br>what little love is still<br>left in there.</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=494007" data-title="The Compulsion To Settle For Simplicity.... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="there is no denying that as a native i think like a native am no Englishman from London Bridge but a Bisayan from Mindanao, as such, i have no choice but just to be myself, in the utter simplicity of my language translating myself word by wor..."></div> </div> </div>

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