<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=558962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In My Father's Shoes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lamp of the bright life darkened.<br>When my father life was taken by God.<br>It was the darkest moment ever<br>experienced by my mother and family.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are family of ten. I am the eldest.<br>That time I was twenty years of age.<br>A new graduate and has no job yet.<br>My mother's teary, query eyes was on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw in her eyes what she meant<br>sickly diabetic mother, ten children<br>with five years old as the youngest.<br>Thats a lot to feed in one day and on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was dumbstruck. Like in a black cloak<br>on my face with small hole to peep.<br>I have to visualize the future. Survival<br>I have to toil and family to take care of.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In storm of life we are in. We should get out.<br>I step up, step in to my father's shoes.<br>And walk to search the sunshine of hope.<br>Then I took the road across the ocean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From east, to west end road sunshine I found.<br>At that side of the world I got the decent job.<br>Earnings, enough to pay my mother's<br>health bills and family expenses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finally time came, self sacrifices paid off.<br>My brothers and sisters finished college.<br>Load to my shoulders time to unload<br>That's I think of, but I can't.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poverty in my native land, social cancer of sort.<br>Still I have to run, carry the load to bear.<br>To take the shoes off? Nay. Still to wear, support.<br>I have conscience, a heart, I care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ency+Bearis">Ency Bearis</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=558962" data-title="In My Father's Shoes de Ency Bearis" data-description="The lamp of the bright life darkened. When my father life was taken by God. It was the darkest moment ever experienced by my mother and family. We are family of ten. I am the eldest. That time I was twenty years of age. A new graduate and has no ..."></div> </div> </div>

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