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The human will cannot be imprisoned
by despair, ruins and rubbles
It seeks to crawl
and find its way out of gloom
Human will insists
to try even the impossible.

Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

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I wrote this right after the poem on Haiti Survivor.

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Karen 20 July 2021

I love your poems and particularly this one about human will, I would like to use in a presentation, are you ok with that?

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Joseph Anderson 08 September 2012

Brief, but potent-profound and true- very worthy. Without this, where would we be

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Elizabeth Padillo Olesen 26 May 2016

Thanks for your beautiful comment, dear Joseph. Have a good sunny day.

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