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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=372528" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Whatev’r Did I Get in Return?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I climbed the roof, replacing broken tiles<br>And many times I’d slipped; <br>I went to stores by walking many miles, <br>But I couldn’t be tight-lipped.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dug the water channels for the trees, <br>And swept the ground so clean; <br>I prayed to God to maintain our home’s peace, <br>So cruel life had been! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I climbed the trees and plucked mangos, drum-sticks; <br>And put the fences up; <br>I paved the floors and built the walls with bricks<br>Life gave a bitter cup! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I washed the clothes, pots, pans and cleaned cob-webs, <br>And performed house-hold chores; <br>But never could prevent the way life ebbs, <br>I painted windows, doors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So many things I’d done in my childhood<br>Whatev’r did I get in return? <br>And now I slog for my family’s good, <br>I continue to learn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this is how we spend our wretched life, <br>On earth since we’ve been born; <br>Alone we must be in joy, grief and strife, <br>Our earthly life’s forlorn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet, our childhood life was good, <br>Despite all heavy odds; <br>And cooking was by fire-wood, <br>We got both love and rods.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet I loved the yesterday, <br>God showed me my own way; <br>And how I hate each new birthday, <br>Live, we must, come what may.<br>Copyright by Dr John Celes 22-1-2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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