<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570853" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Room</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life takes<br>Without warning<br>Like flood heaving<br>Under the bed<br>Into the living room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Suddenly, water rises up<br>To the waist, and you<br>Are a second too late to save<br>Journals, bed sheets, shoes,<br>Cassette tapes, and the old<br>Television set. Even the expired<br>Job contract is sailing in slow,<br>Oblivious movements<br>To your arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So much humanity lies<br>Dead in this room-<br>Turned-sea. One moment,<br>And life is watered down<br>By waves of grief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But something survives<br>And you hear it calling:<br>There, the phone is afloat<br>On a tray, its voice muffled<br>By rain.<br>You rush to lift the receiver<br>As if it possesses<br>Life’s last pulse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The voice comes<br>Clear, as if it weren’t a world<br>Away. Water is wailing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At your feet, but a brief<br>Exchange of words, and life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Takes you to a warm,<br>Familiar shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ronald+Baytan">Ronald Baytan</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=570853" data-title="Room de Ronald Baytan" data-description="Life takes Without warning Like flood heaving Under the bed Into the living room. Suddenly, water rises up To the waist, and you Are a second too late to save Journals, bed sheets, shoes, Cassette tapes, and the old Television set. Even the expir..."></div> </div> </div>

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