<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368636" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Perfect? ? ?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a creature<br>of the light.<br>who prefers to cast no shadow, <br>nor enter a fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet life forces you<br>to take descisions, <br>and face<br>the impending implications.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was such a fight<br>which I was made to contest, <br>where only might was right, <br>a thing I strongly detest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rules were few, <br>the tricks too many.<br>I was asked to gamble dollars, <br>when all I had was a penny.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I tried to retain<br>my precious principles<br>ignoring that in politics, <br>ther's no place for scruples.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'When in Rome, <br>do like the Romans do'<br>so the world preached<br>which I didn't listen to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being the obstinate mule that I am, <br>I fought the fight my way.<br>And now on losing, I realise, <br>Might's right at the end of the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do principles work? <br>I ponder.<br>And as the question remains unanswered, <br>I wonder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So do I abandon, <br>the old-fashioned timeworn morals? <br>And cunningly outsmart the world, <br>to win all it's laurels? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this imperfect place, <br>when you strive to be perfect, <br>is it so impossible, <br>that it can be called a defect? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a creature<br>of the light.<br>Engulfed by darkness, <br>with no hope in sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dipti+Date+Gokhale">Dipti Date Gokhale</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=368636" data-title="Perfect? ? ? de Dipti Date Gokhale" data-description="I am a creature of the light. who prefers to cast no shadow, nor enter a fight. Yet life forces you to take descisions, and face the impending implications. There was such a fight which I was made to contest, where only might was right, a th..."></div> </div> </div>

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