<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=497964" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You ask me if I am sad…</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know why you are asking me if I am sad<br>Like Pablo Neruda I have written most of the sad lines <br>The saddest even if you paid<br>The closest attention</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunset, dimming nature’s lights<br>Departure of my dearly beloved<br>Drying riverbeds, wilting vines on the fence<br>The well of the house that finally ran dry<br>The grass that promised to grow some flowers<br>The sadness of the eyes trying to hide in the curves of the smile<br>The breakfast on that lonely table<br>The river flowing all alone towards the sea<br>The birds stopping on this silent tunnel and then flying away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All these you have been reading <br>Every word seeping without a quiver in the bottom of your heart<br>They fall like dead leaves from trees without buds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The silent sands covering the shores of your memories<br>All these you have been seeing, figuring out<br>My sadness and perhaps from your sadness too you begin to ask<br>Why? What could be the reason for all these? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tonight, I am looking at the moon<br>I am not looking at my wound<br>I have no quibble I am simply seeing things the way they are<br>I have no beginning and I have no end<br>I do not die; I only live every moment of my life<br>I may be shattered but I make myself whole again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tonight, let us not ask the questions<br>Let us not care about the answers….</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=497964" data-title="You ask me if I am sad… de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="I know why you are asking me if I am sad Like Pablo Neruda I have written most of the sad lines The saddest even if you paid The closest attention Sunset, dimming nature’s lights Departure of my dearly beloved Drying riverbeds, wilting vines o..."></div> </div> </div>

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