<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581472" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>(V - 2004) The Lad who was called Mad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">People called him mad.<br>Many a days<br>He came to my mother<br>He would then say<br>‘There is fire in my stomach’<br>My mother would then hurry her cooking<br>Soon she would serve <br>Rice and curry<br>Spiced with love and care.<br>He would eat to his full<br>And at the very next door<br>He would again say<br>‘There is fire in my stomach –<br>I am hungry still’<br>And so one day<br>I looked deep into him<br>Wondered what his hunger was for<br>And saw fire in his heart.<br>Still, he little knew that<br>He simply said, ‘there is fire in my stomach’<br>And people called him mad.<br>He was a sensitive lad<br>Some had led him astray<br>So he lost his senses, <br>Lost his way<br>And people called him mad.<br>This hurt him more<br>Still he had them guide him.<br>So, finally one day<br>Into the temple pond<br>He drowned himself<br>To quell for ever<br>The fire in him<br>And then the people<br>Who had called him mad<br>Said with pity, ‘Oh, how sad! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kannan+G">Kannan G</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=581472" data-title="(V - 2004) The Lad who was called Mad de Kannan G" data-description="People called him mad. Many a days He came to my mother He would then say ‘There is fire in my stomach’ My mother would then hurry her cooking Soon she would serve Rice and curry Spiced with love and care. He would eat to his full And at the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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