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V - Life Line

By gouri_guha

Wed, 15 Sep 2004
  • 1037 reads
 

Tossing on the
ocean of Being
of which
birth and
death, are
waves

You have
come
to man's estate

To survive
till the hour
of death

And then leave
like an
archer
with a broken bowstring.

Certificate U
Story
Spiritual
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