<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=517827" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Words Ceased To Want Themselves And Longed For a World Outside</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE WORDS CEASED TO WANT THEMSELVES AND LONGED FOR A WORLD OUTSIDE </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words ceased to want themselves and longed for a world outside <br>The world outside dumb and beautiful wanted nothing of anyone <br>We the intermediaries plied our trade describing and revising whatever we perceived <br>But we were not the ones we thought we should be <br>We were not the messengers of Light and Hope to distant worlds <br>They had their own forms of speaking that we cannot hear <br>And so we programmed our great messages down through the ages <br>To read only the cryptic path of our own troubled minds<br>We are not the code of every living thing <br>Or the final messenger to the last star <br>Or the only single secret sound God wants heard over and over again <br>We are not the prayer- leaders of the sacred congregation of the galaxies <br>Deeper than all darkness and dark- matter deeper even than our own souls </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are a faint flickering <br>A minor music <br>An insubstantial voice <br>That is pretending to go round and round and round again and again and again <br>Forever <br>But is only a single passage a one way ticket one way word <br>A trip which even if it goes to the end of the universe <br>Will one day end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh Death how you have defeated us all <br>Even when we in Youth knew you did not exist <br>How you waited and ambushed our dreaming.</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=517827" data-title="The Words Ceased To Want Themselves And Longed For a World Outside de Shalom Freedman" data-description="THE WORDS CEASED TO WANT THEMSELVES AND LONGED FOR A WORLD OUTSIDE The words ceased to want themselves and longed for a world outside The world outside dumb and beautiful wanted nothing of anyone We the intermediaries plied our trade describin..."></div> </div> </div>

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