<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539344" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Ritual To Read To Each Other</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you don't know the kind of person I am<br>and I don't know the kind of person you are<br>a pattern that others made may prevail in the world<br>and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,<br>a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break<br>sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood<br>storming out to play through the broken dyke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail,<br>but if one wanders the circus won't find the park,<br>I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty<br>to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,<br>a remote important region in all who talk:<br>though we could fool each other, we should consider--<br>lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it is important that awake people be awake,<br>or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;<br>the signals we give--yes or no, or maybe--<br>should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Stafford">William Stafford</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=539344" data-title="A Ritual To Read To Each Other de William Stafford" data-description="If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal in the mind, a shr..."></div> </div> </div>

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