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Kashmir

*let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream

i am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been

 

to sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen

they talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed

 

talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear

but not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clear

 

all I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground

and my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land

trying to find where I've been

 

pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream

heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream

my Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again

sure as the dust that floats high in June, when moving through Kashmir

 

oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years

With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear

 

let me take you there*

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