<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460465" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0020 Awakening to myself</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surfacing from deep sleep, that moment<br>when the disciplined get up immediately, <br>the self-motivated can’t wait to get on doing their life, <br>the blest open their eyes with praise upon their lips, <br>the tardy look with horror at the bedside clock, <br>or the peremptory alarm floods the body with adrenalin, <br>while the rest of us pull the bedclothes over our head<br>to keep the world out of ourselves, or vice versa, <br>not I..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">half-surfacing to some stony ledge<br>in the ocean of part consciousness<br>I am at one with every depressive, every would-be suicide, <br>every spiritual down-and-out, <br>every being who feels their worthlessness, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as one inspecting carefully the contents <br>of the fullish bag of a vacuum cleaner<br>finding there, naught for my comfort</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until, if I’m lucky, some passing concern<br>for another human being<br>takes the place of fervent morning hymn<br>and I may feel I have some place, <br>some part to play in this strange drama <br>that we find ourselves thrust onstage to play, <br>wondering if we learned the lines aright; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and after this chastening roller-coaster<br>of humility, mayhap another chance to seek myself, <br>I, dispassionately, rise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460465" data-title="0020 Awakening to myself de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Surfacing from deep sleep, that moment when the disciplined get up immediately, the self-motivated can’t wait to get on doing their life, the blest open their eyes with praise upon their lips, the tardy look with horror at the bedside clock, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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