Mothers Must Make Meaning Have More Meaning

Music: Z glebokosci grzechow moich P. Z/pozinski.
By Cyprian Bazylik. Sequenced by Boguslaw Krawczyk at Kunst der Fuge.

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Mothers must make meaning have more meaning,
Opening a window onto love.
The world begins with them, and so what they
Have in their hearts is what life has to say,
Even if the years quite different prove,
Reversing what, retained, might be redeeming,
Sense that would make sense of every day.

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