<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511051" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mother's Son</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have a dream -- a dreadful dream --<br>A dream that is never done.<br>I watch a man go out of his mind,<br>And he is My Mother's Son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They pushed him into a Mental Home,<br>And that is like the grave:<br>For they do not let you sleep upstairs,<br>And you aren't allowed to shave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it was not disease or crime<br>Which got him landed there,<br>But because They laid on My Mother's Son<br>More than a man could bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What with noise, and fear of death,<br>Waking, and wounds and cold,<br>They filled the Cup for My Mother's Son<br>Fuller than it could hold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They broke his body and his mind<br>And yet They made him live,<br>And They asked more of My Mother's Son<br>Than any man could give.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, just because he had not died,<br>Nor been discharged nor sick,<br>They dragged it out with My Mother's Son<br>Longer than he could stick....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And no one knows when he'll get well --<br>So, there he'll have to be:<br>And, 'spite of the beard in the looking-glass,<br>I know that man is me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=511051" data-title="The Mother's Son de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="I have a dream -- a dreadful dream -- A dream that is never done. I watch a man go out of his mind, And he is My Mother's Son. They pushed him into a Mental Home, And that is like the grave: For they do not let you sleep upstairs, And you aren't ..."></div> </div> </div>

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