<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=516338" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Apology To The Reader Who Has Written Me A Message I Have Not Answered</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AN APOLOGY TO THE READER WHO HAS WRITTEN A MESSAGE TO ME I HAVE NOT ANSWERED </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The real apology is not this poem<br>It is one by one <br>Reader by reader <br>Answering each one <br>Who has ever written me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is reading all the poems of others<br>I do not want to say <br>A ‘real no’ or a ‘false yes’ to. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is opening myself<br>To perhaps a true friend<br>To perhaps one whose writing<br>I see better than my own. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The real apology <br>Is in opening up to the poems of the many unknown others.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will I do this<br>Will I give it the time<br>When I already am guilty<br>Of not using my limited time <br>To correct my past work? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Reader, <br>I apologize, I do not know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</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=516338" data-title="An Apology To The Reader Who Has Written Me A Message I Have Not Answered de Shalom Freedman" data-description="AN APOLOGY TO THE READER WHO HAS WRITTEN A MESSAGE TO ME I HAVE NOT ANSWERED The real apology is not this poem It is one by one Reader by reader Answering each one Who has ever written me. It is reading all the poems of others I do not want..."></div> </div> </div>

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