<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vicarious Experience</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(While Watching Coffee Prince*) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She feels love in just a touch, in every stare <br>Even in every thought of the woman and man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pirated digital video disk gets stuck-<br>She ran it, ran it so many, many times-<br>The image of the lovers sharing a smile <br>Is frozen like a large colorful still picture<br>Slowly, she shuts her eyes, sees beyond <br>Derision has been disguising as laughter <br>The silence between has become too wide<br>Arresting the space for hope, second chances <br>Absence no longer makes the heart yearn<br>It gives breathing space a lease in solitude<br>The door opens, a figure dominates the room <br>She pushes the remote control’s power button <br>The television screen turns deathly black<br>He need not know that her hollow, prosaic life<br>Draws color and joy from a television screen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She remembers how much they had and lost<br>These days, his baritone voice comes shadowed<br>On the air, overwhelmed by his betrayals<br>The lies in his words obscure his messages<br>Her memories of their good times mingle<br>Drearily with thick smoke masking his figure <br>As, like a tourist in a crowded shopping mall, <br>He passes her by nay a stare, nay a word<br>Till his figure disappears behind a narra door <br>Now a complete stranger in her pallid world <br>Like a weary traveler frantic for a dropp of water, <br>She pushes a button; the television comes to life<br>For some tangled moment, she loses herself <br>In a certain world once his and hers, once theirs<br>Secretly, she gaily basks in its luster and light</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hoping they will go back to that place<br>Hoping it will endure for others, at least.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*Korean telenovela that became very popular in the Philippines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cheryl+L.+DaytecYa%C3%B1got">Cheryl L. DaytecYañgot</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=581639" data-title="Vicarious Experience de Cheryl L. DaytecYañgot" data-description="(While Watching Coffee Prince*) She feels love in just a touch, in every stare Even in every thought of the woman and man The pirated digital video disk gets stuck- She ran it, ran it so many, many times- The image of the lovers sharing a smil..."></div> </div> </div>

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