stifled, can you give?
can you ever learn to live?
hearts enraptured,
spirits tied
like silent darkness in the night.
it throbs and hits again – again.
is giving wrong?
with much to give?
let hearts retire is that to live?
should stop, arrest this deep-set feeling
for life is such
and part of this,
is giving much with much to give.
Donald Lee: 1967
Published in The Seladang, school newspaper of the Victoria Institution
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