<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530640" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Martian Sestina</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wanted to find my own get away, <br>My vacation somewhere far from the world.<br>I could imaging twinkling lights like stars, <br>So bright and blinding my disappointment, <br>Separating me from my thoughts, myself, <br>And my neurotic, despondent feelings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my gut, I have uneasy feelings—<br>Stirring and churning. They won't go away.<br>I'm trapped in my chair. I'm trapped in myself.<br>I'm trapped underneath the weight of this world.<br>I need to clear all the disappointment-<br>I'll tilt my head and look to the stars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of my window, the lights are stars, <br>A celestial glimmer—I'm feeling<br>The gravity of my disappointment<br>Pulling me down and dragging me away.<br>I'm crushing from the pressures of the world.<br>I'm pressed so flat that I'm barely myself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, I hover so high above myself, <br>Dangling in the sky beside all the stars.<br>I think I've been a tourist of this world.<br>I've had this suspicion, this weird feeling<br>That I used to belong so far away, <br>So far from this constant disappointment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm disappointed by disappointment, <br>The way I can't be happy for myself.<br>I believe better things are far away—<br>They wait for me to wish upon their star.<br>It's a sad, worrisome sort of feeling, <br>But I can't help my distance from the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seems to me that I'm lost in the world, <br>Lost in the shroud of my disappointment.<br>In my daze, I am numbed to all feeling.<br>I don't know anything about myself<br>Except the escapist pings that the stars<br>Suggest. I'm not home. I've been far away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm feeling so alone, far from my world.<br>Can I get away from disappointment<br>Wondering about myself and the stars?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tim+Stensloff">Tim Stensloff</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=530640" data-title="Martian Sestina de Tim Stensloff" data-description="I wanted to find my own get away, My vacation somewhere far from the world. I could imaging twinkling lights like stars, So bright and blinding my disappointment, Separating me from my thoughts, myself, And my neurotic, despondent feelings. I..."></div> </div> </div>

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