an example of the cruel injustices of destiny and fate...
This law is very strange
that tells of the encumberment of pleasure,
how the better off you are, the more you feel unhappy,
and the more you have, the more you want and lack.
If you are spoilt by everything you want, your life is ruined,
and the higher you have raised the standard of your living,
the more likely you'll acquire dreadful illnesses,
most being nowadays of having lived too well;
while if you work hard and are poor and have to constantly fight with adversity,
you'll probably keep well and healthy and much better off than all the rich ones
suffering from boredom, from the worries of their property and their possessions,
from atrocious taxes and the turbulences of the stock exchange
and getting nothing for their woes and worries for their property and riches
but a most unwelcome premature heart attack or worse.
Such is the wisdom of this world and of its ways,
that all you strive for will backfire,
and no matter how much you deserve,
you will get only what you don't deserve.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-10-02 at 13:50
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237. Embarras de richesse
This law is very strange
that tells of the encumberment of pleasure,
how the better off you are, the more you feel unhappy,
and the more you have, the more you want and lack.
If you are spoilt by everything you want, your life is ruined,
and the higher you have raised the standard of your living,
the more likely you'll acquire dreadful illnesses,
most being nowadays of having lived too well;
while if you work hard and are poor and have to constantly fight with adversity,
you'll probably keep well and healthy and much better off than all the rich ones
suffering from boredom, from the worries of their property and their possessions,
from atrocious taxes and the turbulences of the stock exchange
and getting nothing for their woes and worries for their property and riches
but a most unwelcome premature heart attack or worse.
Such is the wisdom of this world and of its ways,
that all you strive for will backfire,
and no matter how much you deserve,
you will get only what you don't deserve.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 434 times
Written on 2006-10-02 at 13:50
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