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Born on the 20th of August-A Leo-Virgo cusp-Shubs-The man who never came anywhere,to a being who came from nowhere-The MAVERICK!

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy
to none. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

He who binds to himself a joy, / Does the winged life destroy; / He who
kisses the joy as it flies, / Lives in Eternity's sun rise. -William Blake,
poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)

Problem is just the distance between expectation and reality, so either expect less and accept the reality or expect a lot and turn it into reality. Choice is yours.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that

there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks

humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in

this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and

charity. -Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)
It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.
~Anonymous~

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.
~E. M. Kelly~

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Days of Absence~

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.-Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you."

Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no
Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions -

Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful.

Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.

But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth." Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)
"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status.

Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee,
And Valies't not what thou Can'st say of me;
Thy Smiles I count not, nor thy frowns I fear,
My days are past, my head lies quiet here.
What faults you saw in me take Care to shun,
Look but at home, enough is to be done.
~Epitaph, epitaph over William Harvey in Greasley Churchyard, England~

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965)

This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone, yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.-Emily Carr, artist and writer (1871-1945)

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound
is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate
organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. -Pearl S. Buck, novelist, Nobel laureate(1892-1973)

A son is a son till he gets a wife
A daughter is a daughter all her life

Our revels are now ended. These our actors
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Is rounded with a sleep.
~William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Prospero at IV, i)~

"India must be the only country in the world, where people fight to be called backward" - Mr.Narayan Murthy,Chairman Emeritus,Infosys India's no.1 company

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Quatrains--Nature~

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.~Charles Peguy~

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
jurist (1841-1935)

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- )

Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. -Christopher Morley, writer(1890-1957)

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.-William Butler Yeats, poet, dramatist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.~Cicero~

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything does dead wrong;
For the test of the heart is trouble,
And it always comes with the years,
But the smile that is worth the praise of earth
Is the smile that comes through tears.
. . . .
But the virtue that conquers passion,
And the sorrow that hides in a smile--
It is these that are worth the homage of earth,
For we find them but once in a while.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Worth While~

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.~John Guarrine~

In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appetite nor restrain lust nor subdue a passion nor cross his covetousness and ambition for the sake of it, and in
hope of that eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised. He that refuses to do the less is not like to do the greater. It is very improbable that a man will die for his religion, when he cannot be persuaded to live according to it. He that cannot take up a resolution to live a saint, hath a demonstration within himself that he is never like to die a martyr.~John Tillotson~

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.~William Shakespeare~

A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.~Jonathan Swift, Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)~

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.~George Soros~

You will find relief from vain fancies if you do every act in life as though it were your last. -Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and writer(121-180)

The redbreast oft, at evening hours,
Shall kindly lend his little aid,
With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,
To deck the ground where thou art laid.
~William Collins, Odes--Dirge in Cymbeline~

Day!
Faster and more fast,
O'er night's brim, day boils at last;
Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim.
~Robert Browning, Introduction to Pippa Passes~

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.~Proverb, (Chinese)~

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.-Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.~William Wordsworth~

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.~Cyril Connolly~

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.~George~

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.~Arthur Conan Doyle~

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?~Alfred Lord Tennyson~

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.~Thomas Huxley~

Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man's feelings, wishes, hopes or fears-Ayn Rand

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.~Eric Hoffer~

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy.I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies;
that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.-Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, and author (1872-1970)

So vain is the belief
That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.
~Thomas Doubleday, Sonnet--The Poet's Solitude~

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.~Sue Murphy~

The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate? -Rabindranath
Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer,Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.~Voltaire~

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. -Byron J. Langenfeld

No news is extreme bad news.For longer the distance greater the divide.Keep in touch.-Shubs

Easier to criticize than to create, that's why there are more critics than creators
I do the very best I can. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I am wrong, ten angels swearing I was right, won't make a difference

It takes a person of great courage to forge ahead and do what he honestly believes to be right, when critics are howling against him.

Remember, all the water in world won't sink our boat, if it doesn't get inside.

Let's make certain we are right, stand by our convictions and rise.


Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.But his delight is in the law of the LORD,and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.Whatever he does prospers.
Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff that the wind blows away.


Attempting leave behind us,
fingerprints on the scene of crime!


I envy not,
I drink no wine,
No strong Desire,
No Wrath is mine!

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. -James Fenton, poet and professor (1949- )

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - Everlasting Man, 1925

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism."

"Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it." - "Charles II" Twelve Types

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink." - "Wine when it is red" All Things Considered

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself." -

"Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street."

"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God."

how beautiful is youth!how bright it gleams,
with its illusions,aspirations,dreams!
book of beginnings,story without end,
Each maid a heroine,and each man a friend!

All the worlds a mass of folly,
youth is gay,age melancholy,
youth is spending,age is thrifty,
mad at twenty,cold at fifty,
man is nought but folly's slave,
from the cradle to grave!

Words that weep,and tears that speak,
As a rule man is fool,
When its hot he wants it cool,
When its cool he wants it hot,
ALways wanting what is not!

Happy the man and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own,
He who,secure within,can say,
Tomorrow,do thy worst,for I have lived today!

A wonderful stream is the River Time,
As it runs through the realms of Tears,
With a faultless rythm,and a musical Rhyme,
As it blends with the Ocean of Years!

Thus,let me live ,unseen,unknown,
Thus lamented ,let me die;
Steal from the world,and not a stone,
Tell where I lie.....


Tenets for a life lived worthwhile:

1. The best way to get even is to forget..
2. Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death...
3. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts...

4. Some folks wear their halos much too tight...
5. Some marriages are made in heaven, but they ALL have to be maintained on earth....
6. Unless you can create the WHOLE universe in 5 days, Then perhaps giving "advice" to God, isn't such a good idea!
7. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up...
8. Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous. You will get knocked down by the traffic from both ways.
9. Words are windows to the heart.
10. A skeptic is a person who when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it's a forgery.
11. It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill, just add a little dirt.
12. A successful marriage isn't finding the right person; it's being the right person.
13. The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground.
14. Too many people offer God prayers with claw marks all over them.
15. The tongue must be heavy, indeed, because so few people can hold it.
16. To forgive is to set the prisoner free and then discover the prisoner was you.
17. You have to wonder about humans, they think God is dead and Elvis is alive!
18. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
19. You'll notice that a turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its neck...
20. If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
You are richer today if you have laughed, given, or forgiven!


God will make a way where there seems to be no way!

There was this Hindu who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water. He decided to save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung him. The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the scorpion stung him again.
A man nearby told him to stop saving the scorpion that kept stinging him.
But the Hindu said: "It is the nature of the scorpion to
sting. It is my nature to love. Why should I give up my nature to love just because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting?"
Don't give up loving.
Don't give up your goodness.
Even if people around you sting.
B good

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."
"Why do you say that?" asked the customer.
"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving a God
who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed
beard. He looked dirty and un-kept.
The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."
"Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me." "Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for
Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

When I Whine
~~~~~~~
Today, upon a bus, I saw a girl with golden hair
I looked at her and sighed and wished I was as fair.
When suddenly she rose to leave,
I saw her hobble down the aisle.
She had one leg and used a crutch
But as she passed, she passed a smile.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine
I have 2 legs, the world is mine.
~~~
I stopped to buy some candy
The lad who sold it had such charm
I talked with him a while, he seemed so very glad
If I were late, it'd do no harm.
And as I left, he said to me,
"I thank you, you've been so kind.
It's nice to talk with folks like you.
You see," he said, "I'm blind."
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have 2 eyes, the world is mine.
~~~
Later while walking down the street,
I saw a child with eyes of blue
He stood and watched the others play
He did not know what to do.
I stopped a moment and then I said,
"Why don't you join the others, dear?"
He looked ahead without a word.
And then I knew, he couldn't hear.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have 2 ears, the world is mine.
~~~
With feet to take me where I'd go.
With eyes to see the sunset's glow.
With ears to hear what I would know.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I've been blessed indeed, The world is mine.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sorrow looks back,
Worry looks around,
Faith looks up.

My Fav poets:

H.W.Longfellow
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Wordsworth

My Fav films:

Pyaasa
The Bridge on the River Kwai
My Fair lady
Miracle on 34th Street
Three Fugitives
Where Eagles Dare

My Fav Superheroes:

Asterix
Tintin
The Phantom

My Fav Books:

Cane and Abel
Beyond the Last Blue Mountain
Those Inscrutable Americans
Perry Mason Mysteries
Sherlock Holmes
Tom Sawyer
Oliver Twist

My Fav Poems:

Phantom of Delight
Love's Philosophy
The Brook

My Music Favs:

Pt.Kumar Gandharva
Dr.Vasantrao Deshpande
Pt.Mukul Shivputra
Rahul Deshpande
GNR
Aerosmith
Nirvana
MLTR
UB40==============Higher Ground & Cant help fallin in love
Shania Twain
Westlife
Cranberries=======Zombie & Linger
Roxette
Creed=============With Arms Wide Open
JBJ
Avril Lavigne=====Complicated
Bryan Adams
Phil Collins
Def Lep===========Two Steps Behind & When Love and Hate collide
Eric Clapton======My Father's Eyes
Sister Sledge=====Frankie
Kool and the gang=Cherish
Black Eyed Peas===Where is the love?
Dire Straits======Walk of life
Scorpions=========Winds of change & Under the same sun
Nelly Furtado
Indus Creed=======Pretty Child
Boyzone

Pet Loves:

Cats and Dogs
Swimming
Crosswords
Bhagwat Chandrashekhar in Cricket
John Mcenroe in Tennis
Cassius Clay in Boxing
Brazil in Football
Pakistan in Hockey

I am a totally asocial person with an almost innate sense of demophobia-the fear of crowds,a total no-no for parties,a very secluded,reticent,laidback,pessimistic [even my blood group tells me to B+ve]...

I believe in Newton's third law of motion while commenting:
To every comment on my poem there is an equal and franker comment returned.
The original=To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;

Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;

One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.

Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.

Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.

Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.

Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.

Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;

Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.

Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.

Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.

Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?

It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!


*_*_Psalm of Life_*_*

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us further than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act -- act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait,

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).

I love you, but I'm not in love with you.
I want your friendship minus your desire.
I would not lead you falsely or betray you.
I feel the tenderness, but not the fire.
I have no reason for my lack of yearning,
No explanation for what I don't feel,
No other love to whom I might be turning,
No anguish to suggest this isn't real.
Passion is a horse that knows no master,
And I cannot with fences make it stay.
It must run free towards daylight or disaster,
Awake to glory in no other way.
So I must say what you don't want to hear,
But it's a truth that both of us must bear.
----Anon

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God Bless Ye All!