Sunday, July 17, 2005

O Me! O Life!

For a long time now I've been trying to put words to my feelings....not with much success. Here's a excerpt of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of grass", that comes closest to expressing how i feel inside.
Hope someday I will be able to read the book ..

O ME! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish;
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew’d;
Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;
Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined;
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

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