Love Means More When Life Is Hard

Love means more when life is hard
And choices lead to sacrifice,
And every passion has its price
In duties paid and windows barred.

Though I have loved for many years,
Love is still for me a spring
That will from stone sweet fragrance bring,
And make a garden of our tears.

The love of children, children's children,
Flowing to the distant verge,
Flowing from the ancient urge
To make a home of wilderness,

Has been my joy, my inner dance
Of ecstasy, as day by day
I move the mountains in my way
And claim through love the gifts of chance.

Nicholas Gordon

Reader Comments

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Name: Hitoshi

2012-12-08

@SimonActually according to my gratdfanher there were lots of addicts when those were over-the-counter drugs, especially just after WWII.Everybody hated them because the chances of talking with anyone of them was minute. They scolded you, acted like "victims" to plead for your money$, or, worse, attacked you.Stories about these people were avoided (though you will find stories about "famous" people finding their end that way, or ironic endings, such as the daughter of the director of an alcohol bottling plant dieing from mixing cocaine and alcohol, that sort of stuff). Contact with people like this was massively avoided (for good reason).You see, it doesn't matter to those 10% how cheap drugs are. There are never enough. They're never cheap enough, and they will do anything, anything at all to get them (a fact that was frequently exploited by criminals even when drugs were legal).Have you ever seen an addict ? Trust me if the drug war actually encouraged addiction, even just a bit, like you keep claiming, people would be arming themselves regardless of the government's opinion on the matter. And they would take some serious firepower.Please take a look around you, if you can't visit an actual clinic, at least watch a movie like "trainspotting", and take a look at what drugs do to people.Also I find your reasoning flawed "people do it (drugs) anyway, so we should allow it", after all, the very same argument is perfectly applicable to murder.