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Life Song
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-16Life Song Sing tenderly Of life emerging from life. A waiting, breathless, bodyless child Begins in a breathless, waiting body From loving to loving, Begins. Sing urgently, Of urgency of entrance of child Into air and light and pain In the semi-awareness of not knowing Existence of self Only hunger and cold are immediate. Sing sadly In the fleeting happiness of childhood. The backwardness of body leading mind; The impossible paradox of learning love And living hate; The realization of life begins. Sing wondrously of love, Love mate found, heart lost. But, in losing, becoming filled With myriad memories. Guard dearly your dearest, lest one destroy one. For young, all love is immediate. Sing swiftly In rushing years, Pushing youth under And behind drying flesh. A weary eye, Views with shy fear -17The inevitable approach of An irrevocable destiny Of all who, once long ago, Had no choice. And now a vigil, wait, anticipation, Filled with unwelcome impatience begins. Sing softly Of a lyrical loveliness So deftly desecrated By the fatal foot of man Let all begin Immediately. Copyright © 1979 Steven Fromholz ...