<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=495544" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Virtue Of Self-reliance....</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i wait for no one<br>and no one waits for me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">copy: i am an island<br>i touch no one and no one touches me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">does this sound like poetry at all? <br>does this sound like an existential angst of one who wants to hold on the hooks of words<br>fished out from the confused waters? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">for one, i haven't heard the cries for help<br>there is only the sound of feet and hands flapping like the fins of a fish<br>as though<br>someone is short of breath<br>and about to die</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i like this, <br>this way to the door of the music room<br>sitting on a bench<br>facing a piano<br>as i begin to press and let my fingers travel distances<br>each note<br>takes me to nowhere, relying only on the sound of its longing<br>no destination, no purpose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ah, like a cocoon hanging on a leaf<br>merely passing the time away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">without the dream of a butterfly<br>inside its darkness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ah, everything blooms, <br>everything opens</div><div style="margin:10px 0">let us see how can this happen to me<br>watch me as i too watch you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this must be life then, surprises all surprises<br>how can boredom be so real? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">how can jejune be June? <br>what about the numerical ennui on the month of May? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">listen, listen<br>drink the silence<br>savor this inner peace</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></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=495544" data-title="The Virtue Of Self-reliance.... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="i wait for no one and no one waits for me copy: i am an island i touch no one and no one touches me does this sound like poetry at all? does this sound like an existential angst of one who wants to hold on the hooks of words fished out from the..."></div> </div> </div>

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