<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359726" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Merienda</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd like to tell you about a friend<br>Who goes about selling snacks<br>She walks alone from Monday to weekend<br>From the subdivision gate and back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This friend is a hardworking Mother<br>On whom a lazy husband depends on<br>We're of the same age but she is quite stronger<br>Has a tray on her head and a bag she drags on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She comes in the afternoon just around three<br>And I called her the nickame 'Merienda'<br>It's the Spanish word for snacks specially<br>Covers the sweets, rice cakes, and the pasta.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Merienda has all of my utmost respect<br>For she does an honest way of earning<br>She works in the only way she can expect<br>To live life with dignity, instead of begging.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If people in the world like her are multiplied<br>I am sure none will be treading Poverty's line<br>One can work simply and be thus satisfied<br>There's no time to blame, complain, or whine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">------</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, <br>to mind your own business and to work with your hands<br>so that you will not be dependent on anybody <br>and you will win the respect of those who do not believe.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 Thessalonians 4: 11- 12</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cynthia+Buhain-Baello">Cynthia Buhain-Baello</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=359726" data-title="Merienda de Cynthia Buhain-Baello" data-description="I'd like to tell you about a friend Who goes about selling snacks She walks alone from Monday to weekend From the subdivision gate and back. This friend is a hardworking Mother On whom a lazy husband depends on We're of the same age but she is qu..."></div> </div> </div>

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