To ask <br />And not to receive... <br />To ask <br />And to contend with the contrary, <br />To ask <br />And to bear the weight of obscurity, <br />To ask <br />And to strive against the mysterious, <br />To ask <br />And to meet with silence... <br /> <br />To ask <br />And not to receive, <br />Is to receive... <br /> <br />To ask <br />And never receive, <br />Is to be favored <br />With the greatest favor of all... <br />It is to be whole... <br />For to ask <br />And never receive, <br />Is to be <br />A pure victim of love... <br /> <br />****************************************************************************** <br /> <br />'To ask for nothing, to refuse nothing' (St. Francis de Sales) , takes true heroic virtue.<br /><br />Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-silence-that-silenced-the-foe/
