tidings

To feel it all, we must rise and fall

Dusk to dusk. Dawn to Dawn

We must be present for it all

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With sycophants or a bully's scorn

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on the crest of a wave, sailing into the storm

We must be present for it all

Shivers in the dark beneath starlight scrawl

Trembling in sunlight as a new day is born

To feel it all, we must rise and fall

When blue skies starch to chalky pall

Or rainbows bleed to muddy form

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To feel it all, we must rise and fall

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