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And they come, like leaves of grass. And they'll go.

And then I'm here,

and when I'm not here too

 

They walk past me,

and I see it in their faces,

the generations,

and their generations,

when they walk past me,

the worse-off

and the better,

they come too,

 

And they come,

and they come,

and in their faces

there are shades I can't name,

but every one of them is,

and everyone of them is

beautiful

 

And in their hearts

there are whispers,

whispers that speak in shapes

I can't measure,

but they whisper

pleasures,

and they whisper of their pains,

and they're not like mine,

and they're not unlike mine either,

and through them all,

they have, and I have

stayed strong,

 

And they've come here

and their strides have covered,

they do cover,

not distances,

not years,

but those joys and sorrows,

 

The joys and sorrows of many

yesterdays,

and they came from those many days

and those days flowed out

from many places,

from many places

that are now one, and that one

will go too,

into many,

 

There will be many

tomorrows,

and into many

tomorrows,

it and they will go,

 

And when they go there,

they'll go everywhere,

 

And when they go,

everywhere will be

one place

and nowhere,

 

And it's from there

they'll bring me back,

and it's to there I'll go

and I'm going there,

and I'm going there

again, with each of them.

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Sep 24, 2012
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