<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=422183" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Defiance of Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I think of my increasing age<br>I'm filled with a surge of impotent rage, <br>How dare the gods who rule the earth<br>Think so little of men and what their lives are worth? ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could cheat my fate, I could take my own life, <br>I could end it all with the blade of a knife, <br>Sometimes I think It would be better that way<br>And I don't give a damn what the priests may say! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gradual erosion of body and soul<br>Has put my character on parole, <br>Do I have the courage to last it out? <br>Will I die with a whimper or a defiant shout? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death takes from me the stars and flowers<br>And all my sweet sentimental hours! <br>No-one ever thinks it will come to this<br>Without the comfort of their mother's kiss! ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd like to know if the God exists<br>Who laughs at men when they slash their wrists, <br>I'd like to sentence HIM to death<br>And I curse him now with my vey last breath! !</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Thorkild+Ellison">John Thorkild Ellison</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=422183" data-title="In Defiance of Death de John Thorkild Ellison" data-description="When I think of my increasing age I'm filled with a surge of impotent rage, How dare the gods who rule the earth Think so little of men and what their lives are worth? ! I could cheat my fate, I could take my own life, I could end it all with ..."></div> </div> </div>

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