<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513300" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The De Facto Orphan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DE FACTO ORPHAN</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have lot of kith and kin<br>And sadly, living parents<br>Yet, I lived a life, full of pains<br>Lonely, as that of an hapless orphan</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My boyhood days in the dark boarding halls<br>Youthful phase was spent in a disciplined hostel<br>Parents were prompt in paying the mess- bills<br>As an unfailing donor servicing the cause of or an orphan</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They never knew the times I wept<br>Nor the nights that went unspent<br>Like a soldier coming home on an annual warrant<br>I returned to the ‘barracks' with moods so silent</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Politely signing on the dotted- lines of the reports of progress<br>Duties of my parents ended there itself<br>Inwardly I am sick, in search of love, affection and parental caress<br>Banished from the family web, I prefer to be listed as an ORPHAN</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Louis Santhana</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Santhana+Louis">Santhana Louis</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=513300" data-title="The De Facto Orphan de Santhana Louis" data-description="THE DE FACTO ORPHAN I have lot of kith and kin And sadly, living parents Yet, I lived a life, full of pains Lonely, as that of an hapless orphan My boyhood days in the dark boarding halls Youthful phase was spent in a disciplined hostel Parents ..."></div> </div> </div>

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