<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Malaria</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I got this inclination to find<br>some thing that wasn’t lost.<br>I knew not what it looked like, <br>but to find it I knew I must.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I discussed it with my colleagues<br>and rightly so they thought me mad.<br>But the feeling was overwhelming<br>and was the first of its kind I’ve had.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I visited museums and libraries, <br>researched chronicles and books.<br>Diligently viewed my surroundings<br>leaving nothing overlooked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A year passed and I lost interest, <br>and found something else to do. <br>Soon afterwards I fell off a ladder<br>and laid unconscious on ward two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whilst dreaming dreams of nonsense<br>the mind rediscovered my quest.<br>It searched the most ambiguous places<br>the abstract, surreal, and the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I travelled the continent of Asia <br>by elephant, horse and camel.<br>Walked across the sands of the Gobi<br>guided by a one eyed owl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the sky I fell into the ocean<br>and was rescued by a whale.<br>It left me on the beach at Cairns, <br>so I followed an Aussie trail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I headed west across country<br>and camped at Alice Springs.<br>Flew to Cairo by cargo plane<br>and suffered from bites and stings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In hospital I was laid up with malaria<br>and drifted very close to death.<br>It was then that I regained consciousness<br>with the answer on my breath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now you may find this story unlikely<br>and sometimes I think so too.<br>The doctors say that my memory is patchy<br>and malaria can do that to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Orlando+Belo">Orlando Belo</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=472971" data-title="Malaria de Orlando Belo" data-description="I got this inclination to find some thing that wasn’t lost. I knew not what it looked like, but to find it I knew I must. I discussed it with my colleagues and rightly so they thought me mad. But the feeling was overwhelming and was the first ..."></div> </div> </div>

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