[Help] Please help me find this poem that haunts me - One step back my soul still lived

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Kiltswinger is in help

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I first came across this poem about 50 years ago in an literature anthology school book. Every google search I can think of has eluded me. As a matter of fact, I was at a funeral about 12 years ago and heard someone quote the last lines from across the room.

It starts with "Lord, never grant me what I ask for/For the unforeseen delights me" and finishes with grant me the joy "of turning a dark corner and knowing that one step back my soul still lived"

I believe the author is South American. You're my last hope!!

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AprilStorms

Beautiful, and reminds me of this quote:

I am trying to see things in perspective. My dog wants a bite of my peanut butter chocolate chip bagel. I know she cannot have this, because chocolate makes dogs very sick. My dog does not understand this. She pouts and wraps herself around my leg like a scarf and purrs and tries to convince me to give her just a tiny bit. When I do not give in, she eventually gives up and lays in the corner, under the piano, drooping and sad. I hope the universe has my best interest in mind like I have my dog’s. When I want something with my whole being, and the universe withholds it from me, I hope the universe thinks to herself: "Silly girl. She thinks this is what she wants, but she does not understand how it will hurt.”

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