<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=497593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When You Read This Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">when you read this poem<br>silently like a prayer written<br>on the wall<br>of an ancient structure<br>and then when you pause<br>upon a word and begin<br>to ponder<br>like ' what is this poem really <br>trying to say? '<br>or ' does this poem have in some<br>way something to inform me<br>or touch me<br>or simply waste my time? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">rest assured this poem has<br>made you phrase some questions<br>not about you<br>or about me alone but <br>whether you believe it or not<br>this poem has become<br>a bridge between us<br>taking the shape<br>of a rainbow between two islands<br>and in a moment before you<br>begin to figure it out<br>or even know it<br>it is gone like a sigh passing you by<br>without any significance<br>and not worth remembering<br>but once <br>after you have read till the end</div><div style="margin:10px 0">once there was this poem<br>and it seems to have no meaning at all<br>except a task<br>a journey that you have taken<br>arriving at nowhere<br>and giving you the essence of nothing.</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=497593" data-title="When You Read This Poem de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="when you read this poem silently like a prayer written on the wall of an ancient structure and then when you pause upon a word and begin to ponder like ' what is this poem really trying to say? ' or ' does this poem have in some way something to ..."></div> </div> </div>

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