<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426100" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Daily Act of Presence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eight hours at work, commuting sometimes two, <br>the daily act of presence is assigned<br>its p[l]ace, weak celebration paid in kind, <br>traced race to waste bereft, much left to do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eight hours abed, at table almost two, <br>the daily act of presence, daily grind, <br>few dare opt out of as life's clocks unwind, -<br>such haste to conquer Time, whose ride’s askew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three hours of leisure, then, without ado, <br>day's drive departs, leaves most deprived of breath.<br>Who'd buck luck's trend bends in the end to Death<br>whose lock mocks motto 'to thyself be true! ' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three hours for chat, sex, net or television, <br>no wonder Man’s case-study for derision. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">16 May 2001 revised 18 December 2008 <br>robi03_0936_robi03_0000 SXX_EJZ <br>for previous version see below</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Daily Act of Presence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eight hours at work, in travel up to two, <br>the daily act of presence is assigned<br>and celebrated weakly, paid in kind, -<br>so much to waste, so little left to do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eight hours abed, at table almost two, <br>the daily act of presence, daily grind, <br>few dare opt out as life's clocks unwind, -<br>such haste to conquer Time, whose ride’s askew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three hours leisure, then, without ado, <br>the day departs, leaves most deprived of breath.<br>Who'd buck the trend bends in the end to Death -<br>what sense retains 'unto thyself be true'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three hours for music, films or television –<br>no wonder Man’s case-study for derision!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</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=426100" data-title="The Daily Act of Presence de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Eight hours at work, commuting sometimes two, the daily act of presence is assigned its p[l]ace, weak celebration paid in kind, traced race to waste bereft, much left to do. Eight hours abed, at table almost two, the daily act of presence, dai..."></div> </div> </div>

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