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A girl sits listening to the sky whisper Secret lines to the brilliant sun That listens to the apple tree Where she defies gravity Closing her eyes tightly; swinging Keeping rhythm to the beats of the butterfly’s wings And suddenly she too has wings And can hear the clouds whisper The branches all around her swinging Shielding the heat from the sun The sun needn’t fear gravity Flying high above the tree A boy sits under an apple tree And watching the silky sparrow’s wings As it flits away from the ropes of gravity He calls out, a whisper Wishing he were bold as the sun But never stopping swinging And with two feet on the ground he keeps swinging Even standing tall as a tree Looking to the bright sun For inspiration on the sun beams’ wings The wind merely a whisper The boy can feel the gravity The girl too, feels the gravity But still she’s swinging In the light of the setting sun She hears a distant whisper She slows under the heavy, wilting tree And closes her wings Softly the boy looks to the disappearing sun As it gives in to gravity Handing over weary wings To steady his heart’s swinging Looking past the haggard tree To hear the reply to his whisper Two hands together swinging Two names carved in a tree Two voices barely a whisper
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Nov 16, 2011
Nov 16, 2011 at 5:43 PM UTC
Names Carved in a Tree
A girl sits listening to the sky whisper Secret lines to the brilliant sun That listens to the apple tree Where she defies gravity Closing her eyes tightly; swinging Keeping rhythm to the beats of the butterfly’s wings And suddenly she too has wings And can hear the clouds whisper The branches all around her swinging Shielding the heat from the sun The sun needn’t fear gravity Flying high above the tree A boy sits under an apple tree And watching the silky sparrow’s wings As it flits away from the ropes of gravity He calls out, a whisper Wishing he were bold as the sun But never stopping swinging And with two feet on the ground he keeps swinging Even standing tall as a tree Looking to the bright sun For inspiration on the sun beams’ wings The wind merely a whisper The boy can feel the gravity The girl too, feels the gravity But still she’s swinging In the light of the setting sun She hears a distant whisper She slows under the heavy, wilting tree And closes her wings Softly the boy looks to the disappearing sun As it gives in to gravity Handing over weary wings To steady his heart’s swinging Looking past the haggard tree To hear the reply to his whisper Two hands together swinging Two names carved in a tree Two voices barely a whisper
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Nov 16, 2011
Nov 16, 2011 at 5:43 PM UTC
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