<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=547860" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Can You Turn?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can you turn from the sword <br> that invites-please<br> 'Hang upon me? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or shrink back from the <br>boasting pool that whispers<br> 'Jump'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I am afraid of blood which <br> makes me sick<br>Scalding water on tender skin-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is terrible, terrible, terrible</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faith is useless here: <br>I tell you this, it is no illusion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blood is real and so is the bubbling water</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look carefully: <br> Behind the road you trod; <br> rubbed out</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you believe me? <br>Look at me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Speaking'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you couldn't... trees they<br>Were too thick.. they went by<br>Chanting, chanting, chanting: <br>It's fine It's fine It's fine<br>Jump in, jump in, jump in -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I'm already - splashing, splashing, splashing<br> <br>Must I beat my way to the riverbank <br> to prove I'm wet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outrage danced on my lips, that<br>Sputtered and danced</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can You Turn? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And around the bend came the <br> voices fainter and fainter<br> 'the water - the water - the water <br> is fine <br> jump in- jump in - jump in- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And no more I was free! ! <br>I dipped my hand in the water <br>And the drops ran out of<br> my fingers - the sun lit <br> into my throat - <br> <br>What a wonderful, wonderful day <br>for knowing I thought </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What a wonderful, wonderful place for swimming'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I murmured<br>And it was true: the water<br> was cream and silk</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sky was bright as disaster <br>Suppose they came back? <br>Suppose they came back! <br>Was the mutter that crinkled the <br> edges of being</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the water smoothed in<br> over the sunshine </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'False friends' 'Deceitful loves'<br>Who has not known these <br> the world over? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Does it then blot out the sun! ? ! <br>And dry up the river? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can You Turn? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jump in, my dear, my dears <br> my dears-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The water is fine, it's fine, it's <br> fine<br> The water- the water- the water<br> <br>The whisper is treading water <br> with no body <br> and not convinced -<br>But I will learn<br>I will Learn.... I will learn</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some day I may lead the <br> chanters myself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes it's well to have marching <br> feet and banners<br>Even with this</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The water is fine, jump in, ' <br> they cried</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its fine, its fine, its fine <br> jump in- jump in- jump in</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But I'm already in, ' I screamed <br> 'can't you see, can't you see, <br> can't you see? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isabelle+Cooper">Isabelle Cooper</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=547860" data-title="Can You Turn? de Isabelle Cooper" data-description="Can you turn from the sword that invites-please 'Hang upon me? ' Or shrink back from the boasting pool that whispers 'Jump' But I am afraid of blood which makes me sick Scalding water on tender skin- It is terrible, terrible, terrible F..."></div> </div> </div>

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