Seeds | I skipped, and I danced, and I sang. |
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| Written by Abdun Nur | |
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I skipped, and I danced, and I sang.
When I was young, I skipped, and I danced, and I sang; when I was young...
When I was grown, I laughed, and I drank, and I fooled around; when I was grown...
When I matured, I tired, and I looked, and I puzzled; when I matured...
When I grew wise, I wept, and my soul was sorrow; when I grew wise...
Then I grew angry, I floundered, in outrage, and I failed; when I grew angry...
When I changed nothing, I withered, and I dithered, and I dangled; when I changed nothing...
When I grew old, defeated, and broken, and powerless; I died...
As I awoke, in blackness, and silence, and horror; so I awoke...
When I was young, in anguish, in torment, in sorrow; when I was burning...
When I was grown, in sadness, in thirst, and in silence; when I was grown...
When I matured, I tired, and I looked, and I puzzled; when I matured...
When I grew wise, I fed, and I drew from the flames, when I grew wise...
Then I grew calmness, I awoke, and I thought, and I acted; when I grew calmness...
When I changed perception, I developed, I expanded, I evolved, when I changed perception...
When I grew old, I skipped, and I danced, and I sang; then life began.... |
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