<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=497260" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What This Poetry Is Trying To Achieve</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">nothing and no one<br>saves us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">from this life<br>death situation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now you must<br>realize the purpose of<br>poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it does not save us<br>from death or<br>hunger or<br>pain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">though it can lessen<br>this misery<br>like a pillow in our <br>heads when<br>we really badly need<br>to sleep<br>& rest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">poetry never promised you<br>redemption<br>they are just words to say the least</div><div style="margin:10px 0">somehow<br>it changes the way we look at life<br>and death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i love the metamorphosis<br>metaphor<br>of that caterpillar, cocoon<br>butterfly thing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this is not a case of a sinking ship<br>where rats are <br>raging furiously out of the mess<br>to save themselves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this is not a house burning<br>where our only dream is an exit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or a prison cell where we always<br>speak of liberation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a cave, a tunnel, a pit<br>where light becomes a dream</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>this is but a realistic approach<br>to an existential nihilism</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we are but spectators of this show<br>and participants as well</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we all live and leave and then<br>be all silent because we have then <br>decoded the mysteries of our<br>innate truths</div><div style="margin:10px 0">again i am into this Rubicon of words<br>trying to untangle and in the very process<br>caught so well in my own<br>imaginary cave, a prison, a darkness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which i very well know is just temporary.</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=497260" data-title="What This Poetry Is Trying To Achieve de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="nothing and no one saves us from this life death situation now you must realize the purpose of poetry it does not save us from death or hunger or pain though it can lessen this misery like a pillow in our heads when we really badly need to sl..."></div> </div> </div>

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