<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539392" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For A Coming Extinction</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gray whale<br>Now that we are sinding you to The End<br>That great god<br>Tell him<br>That we who follow you invented forgiveness<br>And forgive nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I write as though you could understand<br>And I could say it<br>One must always pretend something<br>Among the dying<br>When you have left the seas nodding on their stalks<br>Empty of you<br>Tell him that we were made<br>On another day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bewilderment will diminish like an echo<br>Winding along your inner mountains<br>Unheard by us<br>And find its way out<br>Leaving behind it the future<br>Dead<br>And ours</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you will not see again<br>The whale calves trying the light<br>Consider what you will find in the black garden<br>And its court<br>The sea cows the Great Auks the gorillas<br>The irreplaceable hosts ranged countless<br>And fore-ordaining as stars<br>Our sacrifices<br>Join your work to theirs<br>Tell him<br>That it is we who are important</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Stanley+Merwin">William Stanley Merwin</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=539392" data-title="For A Coming Extinction de William Stanley Merwin" data-description="Gray whale Now that we are sinding you to The End That great god Tell him That we who follow you invented forgiveness And forgive nothing I write as though you could understand And I could say it One must always pretend something Among the dying ..."></div> </div> </div>

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