<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548599" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Claims Upon the Innocent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seems we are forever falling, <br>Falling into empty channels<br>Where the darkness thickens and consumes us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who are we to know our fate? <br>Was it emptiness that birthed us—<br>Made us howl with fear at the life thus given? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Were we plants or animals, sealife or landlife? <br>Oh, how it fits us to mourn our omnivorous blood.<br>But the sea, like the mountain, is forever silent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was wishing for a new set of answers, <br>Consummate ones that could crack fate<br>And spread it on the nightmare of innocence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it is innocence that traps us, <br>Keeps us swimming in the well, <br>That tiny, dark sea within the earth’s core.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Harold+Standish">Harold Standish</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=548599" data-title="Claims Upon the Innocent de Harold Standish" data-description="It seems we are forever falling, Falling into empty channels Where the darkness thickens and consumes us. Who are we to know our fate? Was it emptiness that birthed us— Made us howl with fear at the life thus given? Were we plants or animal..."></div> </div> </div>

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