<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551329" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elegy Written In A Desert Creek</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can’t you feel? <br>How you gnaw my tongue so hard, yet pledge<br>To heal this wound thereof<br>You scratched the silver panel off my skin<br>Yet promise to restore <br>A supple, flaming fur<br>Still, you scorn this waning, failing coat<br>And left folks to spatter foul on my feeble shoulder</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can’t you see? <br>How you threw me into an isle of fools<br>Who climb lofty mountains in dark nights<br>I mean those folks who spew on the rivers<br>For me to drink, and my brothers also<br>Only to be plagued with soul-tearing infirmities<br>And yet find our way into dead sanatoriums<br>Hijacked by an army decked in fuming facade</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can’t you hear? <br>That Niger-Delta has developed grave insomnia<br>Not because of the fumes emanating from my generator<br>Nor the chair my brothers throw at each other daily<br>In our highly-esteemed chambers<br>But that my brothers are fleeing, like troubled bees<br>Into clouds unknown<br>Leaving million eyes in their pool of tears</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now are we tired to see a tireless, scorching sun<br>Who refuse to bid farewell to the quiet hiss of eve</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gilbert+Alasa">Gilbert Alasa</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=551329" data-title="Elegy Written In A Desert Creek de Gilbert Alasa" data-description="Can’t you feel? How you gnaw my tongue so hard, yet pledge To heal this wound thereof You scratched the silver panel off my skin Yet promise to restore A supple, flaming fur Still, you scorn this waning, failing coat And left folks to spatter ..."></div> </div> </div>

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