<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423386" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Life's Tragedy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am water<br>swept by the wind<br>to become waves<br>i am a consciousness<br>swept by god<br>to become man<br>inundated by <br>waves of<br>trials and tribulations<br>swirling, crushing, <br>always rushing onward to shore<br>soldiers on field<br>advancing to claim<br>a piece of victory they<br>consider theirs<br>the sand a smooth plain<br>after each swipe of the waves<br>i leap on towards this survival<br>again and again<br>pondering over the meaning<br>of this breath, life, miracle, <br>a blank in my life<br> i beg god would fill out for me<br>those masterful footsteps<br>in my life<br>those guiding steps on<br>the beach after each lap of wave<br>that i am still waiting for</div><div style="margin:10px 0">inspired by</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life's Tragedy<br>It may be misery not to sing at all, <br>And to go silent through the brimming day; <br>It may be misery never to be loved, <br>But deeper griefs than these beset the way.<br>To sing the perfect song, <br>And by a half-tone lost the key, <br>There the potent sorrow, there the grief, <br>The pale, sad staring of Life's Tragedy.<br>To have come near to the perfect love, <br>Not the hot passion of untempered youth, <br>But that which lies aside its vanity, <br>And gives, for thy trusting worship, truth.<br>This, this indeed is to be accursed, <br>For if we mortals love, or if we sing, <br>We count our joys not by what we have, <br>But by what kept us from that perfect thing. <br>Paul Laurence Dunbar</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tiong+Chunghoo">John Tiong Chunghoo</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=423386" data-title="Life's Tragedy de John Tiong Chunghoo" data-description="i am water swept by the wind to become waves i am a consciousness swept by god to become man inundated by waves of trials and tribulations swirling, crushing, always rushing onward to shore soldiers on field advancing to claim a piece of victory..."></div> </div> </div>

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