maya angelou, C++ (gcc)

maya angelou

#include <iostream>

using namespace std

int main()

{
std::cout << "It is true\n";
std::cout << "I was created in you.\n";
std::cout << "It is also true\n";
std::cout << "That you were created for me.\n";
std::cout << "I owned your voice.\n";
std::cout << "It was shaped and tuned to soothe me.\n";
std::cout << "Your arms were molded\n";
std::cout << "Into a cradle to hold me, to rock me.\n";
std::cout << "The scent of your body was the air\n";
std::cout << "Perfumed for me to breathe.\n";
std::cout << "\n";
std::cout << "Mother,\n";
std::cout << "During those early, dearest days\n";
std::cout << "I did not dream that you had\n";
std::cout << "A large life which included me,\n";
std::cout << "For I had a life
std::cout << "Which was only you.\n";
std::cout << "\n";
std::cout << "Time passed steadily and drew us apart.\n";
std::cout << "I was unwilling.\n";
std::cout << "I feared if I let you go\n";
std::cout << "You would leave me eternally.\n";
std::cout << "You smiled at my fears, saying\n";
std::cout << "I could not stay in your lap forever.\n";
std::cout << "\n";
std::cout << "That one day you would have to stand\n";
std::cout << "And where would I be?\n";
std::cout << "You smiled again.\n";
std::cout << "I did not.\n";
std::cout << "Without warning you left me,\n";
std::cout << "But you returned immediately.\n";
std::cout << "You left again and returned,\n";
std::cout << "I admit, quickly,\n";
std::cout << "But relief did not rest with me easily.\n";
std::cout << "You left again, but again returned.\n";
std::cout << "You left again, but again returned.\n";
std::cout << "Each time you reentered my world\n";
std::cout << "You brought assurance.\n";
std::cout << "Slowly I gained confidence.\n";
std::cout << "  \n";
std::cout << "You thought you know me,\n";
std::cout << "But I did know you,\n";
std::cout << "You thought you were watching me,\n";
std::cout << "But I did hold you securely in my sight,\n";
std::cout << "Recording every moment,\n";
std::cout << "Memorizing your smiles, tracing your frowns.\n";
std::cout << "In your absence\n";
std::cout << "I rehearsed you,\n";
std::cout << "The way you had of singing\n";
std::cout << "On a breeze,\n";
std::cout << "While a sob lay\n";
std::cout << "At the root of your song.\n";
std::cout << "                  \n";
std::cout << "The way you posed your head\n";                  
std::cout << "So that the light could caress your face\n";
std::cout << "When you put your fingers on my hand\n";
std::cout << "And your hand on my arm,\n";
std::cout << "I was blessed with a sense of health,\n";
std::cout << "Of strength and very good fortune.\n";
std::cout << "          \n";
std::cout << "You were always\n";
std::cout << "the heart of happiness to me,\n";
std::cout << "Bringing nougats of glee,\n";
std::cout << "Sweets of open laughter.\n";
std::cout << "          \n";
std::cout << "During the years when you knew nothing\n";
std::cout << "And I knew everything, I loved you still.\n";
std::cout << "Condescendingly of course,\n";
std::cout << "From my high perch\n";
std::cout << "Of teenage wisdom.\n";
std::cout << "I grew older and\n";
std::cout << "Was stunned to find\n";
std::cout << "How much knowledge you had gleaned.\n";
std::cout << "And so quickly.\n";
std::cout << "            \n";
std::cout << "Mother, I have learned enough now\n";
std::cout << "To know I have learned nearly nothing.\n";
std::cout << "On this day\n";
std::cout << "When mothers are being honored,\n";
std::cout << "Let me thank you\n";
std::cout << "That my selfishness, ignorance, and mockery\n";
std::cout << "Did not bring you to\n";
std::cout << "Discard me like a broken doll\n";
std::cout << "Which had lost its favor.\n";
std::cout << "I thank you that\n";
std::cout << "You still find something in me\n";
std::cout << "To cherish, to admire and to love.\n";
std::cout << "                     \n";
std::cout << "I thank you, Mother.\n";
std::cout << "I love you.\n";
return 0
}


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