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Video Music:
The Lake.
By Jahzzar.
Performed by Jahzzar
at the Free
Music Archive
under an Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
You are not, will
not, do not what you dream.
One accepts that one cannot be pure.
Moreover, there are sins you should redeem.
Kindness, however, makes you feel secure.
In you there is a longing to be known,
Peered right through, as sun lights up a room,
Perhaps just as you promise to atone,
Understood and loved while your doom
Remains clay, not yet hardened into stone.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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