<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=494482" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ingrates</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">sometimes<br>we are given so much life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all the beautiful flowers<br>blooming wildly along our usual paths<br>to the mountains and seas</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we are given so much of air<br>this invisible abundance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we breathe and take every packet<br>of freshness in our lungs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and we, out of this familiarity, <br>and routine, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">take all these for granted<br>even as rights <br>rather than privileges</div><div style="margin:10px 0">even if you we do not ask<br>all these are given</div><div style="margin:10px 0">handed like fruits ripe on a<br>golden platter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and we have all become<br>ingrates</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and so the Giver has become so sad<br>regretting that He has created us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">finally contemplating upon<br>a destruction</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>like the way a disappointed writer<br>deletes his composition</div><div style="margin:10px 0">more of myself too<br>erasing what i have so carefully thought of<br>and written on the sand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there was once a time<br>i did not leave it for the waves </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i did it myself<br>stamping all those castles, destroying each letter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">leaving everything in a mess<br>that it really deserves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">after all, i am but a man<br>angry about ungratefulness....</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=494482" data-title="The Ingrates de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="sometimes we are given so much life all the beautiful flowers blooming wildly along our usual paths to the mountains and seas we are given so much of air this invisible abundance we breathe and take every packet of freshness in our lungs and w..."></div> </div> </div>

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