i can help you
but because i love you more than you know
i refrained
from taking you from the quicksand
i look at you struggling for life
i want you to struggle some more
watching if you can save yourself
i am testing myself too
to the future comfort that when i am gone
you will still know how to live by yourself
that quicksands could have been avoided
i could have helped you immediately & easily
but i wanted you to help yourself first
i want to see you stronger this time
and even wiser
i am getting old
and time shall soon make me irrelevant in your life
soon you must survive on your own
and when i see you finally on this state
i can say to myself: i have truly loved you
because i have never allowed you to be weak.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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