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the poem as
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the poem as
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Music:
Birthday Present.
By Lovira.
Performed by Lovira at the
Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Maybe grief needs
ritual, as music
Embraces rules that turn sound into song.
Maybe if one trusts that one won't lose it,
One can turn away, though grief be strong.
Reserve, then, days for rituals of mourning
In which one may allow the flood of grief
Again to inundate the heart, restoring
Life to deserts thirsting for relief.
Dance depends on choreography
As pain declares its sovereign right to be,
Yet performs with grace restrained and
brief.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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