<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=494561" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Last Flight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is always a reason why a man cannot<br>cease writing<br>there is that denial of what was there a long time ago<br>it sits there like a statue<br>beside the door of the house<br>where the window is always closed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is always a reason why the words keep flowing<br>like a river<br>why the river is always filled with running water<br>despite the drought</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you see the bones of cows<br>the dust of the sands in the desert<br>it was once an oasis<br>where date palms abound where women bathe<br>with their men<br>where they make love <br>under the crescent moon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is always a reason that you know<br>but you do not tell<br>but which i will always deny<br>as truth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is this denial that keeps my hands going<br>like soldiers ready for a kill in that theater of war<br>it is this roaring lion that does not bite<br>that keeps me<br>in fear that keeps me speaking inside myself<br>there is no one here<br>there is no wall anymore</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the winds are waiting with all the wings of the dead birds<br>it is ready<br>i am undressing<br>this is the flight.</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=494561" data-title="The Last Flight de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="there is always a reason why a man cannot cease writing there is that denial of what was there a long time ago it sits there like a statue beside the door of the house where the window is always closed there is always a reason why the words keep ..."></div> </div> </div>

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