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  • Compassion
  • Carlyle Reedy
(SPOKEN) MALE VOICE TENOR (INTONED/SUNG) VOICES 1 SOPR 1 BASS 1 TENOR (SPOKEN) FEMALE VOICE TENOR
At Only Point c o m p a s s i o n
c e a s e l e s s
of A Life
not a matter
who can use it
not a matter of who
c h o i c e l e s s
not a matter
who can use
to decide it is
can use it
in her reaches
is She
as she is in her inspiring
reaching into
c o m p a s s i o n
IGNORANCE REASON
further & further
she does go
that the “You”
SHE G O E S
IS
& further & further
in fact
that the “I”
does not know
can only read
the “you” or the “I”
H E R that the “I”
can only read
does not know
does not need
her state
nor to assess
NOR TO DOLE OUT
her state
her
her
not need to read
her state
nor to dole out
NOR TO ASSESS HER
state to her c o m p a s s her state to her
IN IS
c o m m m m p a s s s s s
whatever
around her
whoever
around surrounding
whatever
whoever she
what she is
is in
S H E I S whoever
whatever she
is she in
is
no one rules
when she shall
as
s h e
d o e s
no one decides
when she will
give give
it is not the “YOU”
It is She
It is not the “I”
It is She
M O V E
to encompass
It is She
It is not the “I”
It is She
It is not the “You”
ALL the WORLD
WHEN YOU CARESS
THE HEAD
moves & lives
when
the “I” CARESSES
the head of
and lives & moves
all the world
WHEN YOU CARESS OF THE CHILD
all the world
in
the child
in
It Is She
THAT MOVES
the “I”
IT IS NOT
compassion choiceless
ceaseless compassless
IT IS NOT
THAT MOVES
the “you”
Who can say
what she is
Use
OOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Use
a reason need
can say
does hear
to hear does she
what she is
needs a reason or
when the “I”
no longer caries
when the “You”
to be fed what
does
does she see
feeds her
with her
with her
where
the “You” is
h e r e
C
O
M
P
A
S
S
I
O
N
she is
does not need
need a reason
is she what
does she see
when the “You”
her does she need
to be carried
does the food
feed her
what feeds her
does the food
communicate
here
where
the “I” is
when the “I”
encompasses
does it
what communicates
are the you
hearing seeing feeding
communicating
the “I”is she
R
E
A
S
O
N
L
E
S
S
can the “I”
the Reasonless
can the “I”
encompass
WHAT
the “I”
communicating
feeding seeing hearing
is
SHE
(all five voices together)
my disease was making me mad it was. mad. my disease said. to be. a disease it had. my disease had a language it had a language assigned to it. a language which dictated that. that it was a disease. that was. dictated. by the language said to be of the disease. it was not of the disease that language it was a language assigned to the disease a disease this language built to indicate a condition and separation was a language assigned to a condition said to exist as a separate condition but I was
I was not certain
language
dictating
could it be
indication of

in a separate condition
having a language
something
apart from a language
apart
a part of something
a language
designated as separate
could it be
a language
indicating
uncertain
something
in a condition
its own language
something
a language designed
to be
other than disease
a language
of an existence
not certain
language
existing
dictating to
not existing
separate
could it be
something
to be
assigned
other than
of a condition
of a being
my being a being to which a disease...

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