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Falling in darkness... Arms out for help...the void extends its hand Sadness and despair embraces me... A blindness overtakes me... For now I see the truth The once fading light of a candle was the creator The smoke that rose once gone...his ghost For it fades into nothing... Nothing from which it came from and which it returns... In measurement of time man is a grain of sand in an hourglass as big as the universe itself. Every moment captured in memory makes that hourglass fill...Every failure...every triumph is another grain that falls....in time it will be covered by others...in time we shall all be forgotten....Can you tell me what moment in time did the first grain fall? What moment will be the last? Who will tilt the glass in the end?
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Sep 16, 2019
Sep 16, 2019 at 1:14 AM UTC
Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei
Falling in darkness... Arms out for help...the void extends its hand Sadness and despair embraces me... A blindness overtakes me... For now I see the truth The once fading light of a candle was the creator The smoke that rose once gone...his ghost For it fades into nothing... Nothing from which it came from and which it returns... In measurement of time man is a grain of sand in an hourglass as big as the universe itself. Every moment captured in memory makes that hourglass fill...Every failure...every triumph is another grain that falls....in time it will be covered by others...in time we shall all be forgotten....Can you tell me what moment in time did the first grain fall? What moment will be the last? Who will tilt the glass in the end?
Every time i listen to Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei I feel the highs and lows of every moment I have ever lived. I have never truly been a religious man but if I was to ever believe in a higher being it be that which let man create music such as this.
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Sep 16, 2019
Sep 16, 2019 at 1:14 AM UTC
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