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George Gray by: Edgar Lee Masters

you can find this poem is the "spoon river anthology". if you have not read it I strongly suggest it to any writer looking for amazing poetry

I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me–
A boast with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
but my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its dis–
      illusionment:
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid:
ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet al the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know the we must lift the sail
and catch the winds of destiny
wherever they drive the boat.
to put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
of restlessness and vague desire–
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

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