<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561055" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Let Me Compose Myself</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">let me compose myself<br>like a symphony<br>note tumbling upon note until<br>they are chasing each other<br>down the staff<br>and through the measures until<br>i have composed an opus<br>a song calm as the thrust<br>of the ocean upon sand<br>so i can turn<br>and have a song to play<br>trembling fingers on the violin<br>dragging from the strings<br>song and sound<br>a composition, a calmness<br>the thought of my body<br>in your arms<br>when you cradled all of me<br>and carried me home<br>and the song i have sounds<br>the way the air smells like winter<br>in the morning<br>around november when<br>the wind carries a bite<br>and the bite is its warning: <br>'Get out while you can<br>the winter is harsh<br>your skin will be chapped and red<br>and the cold will kill the crops<br>your stomachs will rumble<br>like the roll of a drum<br>your winter hunger will expand<br>beyond the need of food<br>your cold fingers will<br>long for the warm press of summer'<br>as they press the strings against<br>the fingerboard<br>pulling the silence from the air<br>and funneling it down my throat: <br>i am quiet; <br>you are bringing forth into<br>my wordlessness the reality of sound<br>you are replacing the silence<br>with song<br>a composition i remember<br>as my own</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(july 2007)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ryan+Blood">Ryan Blood</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=561055" data-title="Let Me Compose Myself de Ryan Blood" data-description="let me compose myself like a symphony note tumbling upon note until they are chasing each other down the staff and through the measures until i have composed an opus a song calm as the thrust of the ocean upon sand so i can turn and have a song to..."></div> </div> </div>

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