<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=382492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode To Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh to be born and accept the forgetting<br>into a life of stress and fretting<br>does not seem fair<br>since we forget from where<br>we came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We take on the trials of life on earth<br>and soon cannot remember<br>what peace there was before we came.<br>A died out ember<br>for me in December.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Awakened to a new purpose for now<br>and so we finally learn somehow<br>to encompass life, <br>all joy and strife<br>and live.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We find new joys in girls and boys<br>playing with their earthly toys.<br>And as we grow<br>it's then we know<br>that's over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We lose ourselves into a man-made prison<br>for in the mind has arisen<br>the fears of losing<br>and the fear of choosing<br>wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And through it all our heart is there<br>and helps to become aware<br>of purpose each morn, <br>for why we were born<br>on earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The natural wonders we came to explore, <br>the stories, the stars, the love, the lure<br>of every beautiful thing<br>and the reason we sing<br>and we remember.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We asked for permission to come again<br>to help out our fellowmen, <br>to quiet ourselves down inside<br>and take all things in our stride<br>until we travel home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwina+Reizer">Edwina Reizer</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=382492" data-title="Ode To Life de Edwina Reizer" data-description="Oh to be born and accept the forgetting into a life of stress and fretting does not seem fair since we forget from where we came. We take on the trials of life on earth and soon cannot remember what peace there was before we came. A died out embe..."></div> </div> </div>

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