<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414357" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One step at a time.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see no reason to be coy.<br>I was a baby long ago<br> and after that a little boy.<br>When all I had to do was grow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I quickly grew to be a youth.<br>Certain that I knew everything.<br>But passing years taught me the truth.<br>I could be sure of just one thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The more I learnt the less I knew.<br> There was so much I did not know<br> and I had other tasks to do.<br>Things to see places to go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We may not know what lies ahead, <br> such knowledge is forbidden us.<br>So we are forced to guess instead.<br>Perpetually curious.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I realised as I grew old.<br>That I must die eventually.<br>Leave my old body stiff and cold <br>And then at last I would be free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just how I knew I cannot say<br> but I believe it to be true<br>I grow more certain every day.<br>Although I KNOW no more than you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I find it very comforting<br> to think that when this body dies.<br> At last I will know everything <br>with nothing hidden from my eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until I am reborn again.<br> Bereft of all my memories.<br>Knowing no more than other men<br>I learn again by slow degrees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bodies may die but I go on.<br>Blessed with immortality<br>Forgetting past lives which are gone<br> until I am what I should be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A small part of the oversoul<br>Returned at last from whence I came.<br>A process I cannot control<br> but I must go through just the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When all are safely gathered in<br>and thus complete the oversoul<br>A new creation can begin.<br>Perfection is the final goal</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.Tuesday,05 January 2010<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=414357" data-title="One step at a time. de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="I see no reason to be coy. I was a baby long ago and after that a little boy. When all I had to do was grow. I quickly grew to be a youth. Certain that I knew everything. But passing years taught me the truth. I could be sure of just one thing. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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