<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=422297" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Failed Mystic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was young, the wind in the trees<br>Brought intimations of the Great Spirit.<br>Later, I suffered from a grey disease<br>And my soul was like an apple, rotten to the core.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I used to try to freeze Eternity<br>Into one single Moment, <br>Stand on a hill-top and try to transfix<br>The Beauty of Nature like a<br>Final Butterfly captured Forever.<br>It was a hopeless task.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Later, I wrote down my Vision<br>In poems of no merit<br>And dreamed of Immortality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I cannot say You were always there, <br>Knocking at my door, <br>Beckoning me to a life of Love through Action.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It isn't true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was fumbling about in the darkness, <br>Trying to be sure, <br>To find my Vocation in the dullest chore, <br>Like saints do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I always wanted to be special, <br>The centre, not on the periphery, <br>To be loved.......</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But tell me, Great Spirit, is there no cure?</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=422297" data-title="The Failed Mystic de John Thorkild Ellison" data-description="When I was young, the wind in the trees Brought intimations of the Great Spirit. Later, I suffered from a grey disease And my soul was like an apple, rotten to the core. I used to try to freeze Eternity Into one single Moment, Stand on a hill-to..."></div> </div> </div>

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