<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=479876" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>This Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As my body begins to turn against me<br>And I face the inevitable fate<br>That I too am flesh and bone<br>Impending death...<br>My thoughts turn to my childhood<br>The green dappled hills <br>The snow covered peaks<br>The lush valleys <br>Of a childhood in a place so far away...<br>My playing near a crisp clear stream<br>As the sun danced on my skin<br>Tasting melting snow<br>Laying in soft grass in an apple orchard<br>Watching the birds fly overhead<br>Inhaling sweet perfumed air<br>Looking at a team of ants busy in their day's work<br>Spotting a squirrel or two at play<br>Daydreaming <br>Making up adventures in my head<br>This life<br>Is such a fleeting thing<br>Gone<br>In the blink of an eye<br>I think of all the things I've done<br>It moves so quickly<br>Life<br>With<br>It's beautiful, happy, sad, bittersweet, wonderful, horrible<br>Struggling to feel... something<br>Rejoicing in being alive<br>Then feeling trapped<br>Then feeling free<br>Then feeling....resigned<br>Then finding the courage to fight<br>Giving up<br>A pile of flesh on the floor<br>Wanting to...end<br>Then, <br>Finding the strength to pick yourself up, all over again<br>Constantly<br>Reinventing yourself<br>Making yourself better<br>Evolving <br>Always<br>Into a<br>Different you<br>All these memories<br>Come flooding at me <br>A dam bursts open <br>And<br>I feel<br>As if I've lived a thousand lives<br>Every second<br>Of <br>Every day<br>I find beauty <br>Even in my pain<br>My life was as perfect for me<br>As it could be<br>And, now, <br>As I look back<br>Knowing I have to leave<br>Knowing what I know<br>I wonder...<br>Would I have<br>Should I have<br>Lived it any differently<br>Did I take every chance<br>Afforded to me<br>Was I as happy<br>As I could be<br>Was I the truest version of my self for the sake of... me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rabia+Minhas">Rabia Minhas</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=479876" data-title="This Life de Rabia Minhas" data-description="As my body begins to turn against me And I face the inevitable fate That I too am flesh and bone Impending death... My thoughts turn to my childhood The green dappled hills The snow covered peaks The lush valleys Of a childhood in a place so far..."></div> </div> </div>

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