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Video and Audio Music:
Heart Strings
By Coyote Hearing.
Music free to use
at YouTube.
Life blessed me with a sunny
disposition
Even as I lived through terrible storms.
Sport was my passion; justice was my mission.
The world, I thought, was something one reforms.
Embrace it, then, with all your warmth and joy!
Rebel, as I did, for, and not against,
Resolving to create, not to destroy,
Open-armed and loving, not incensed.
Delight, exuberance, a child's wonder --
Not naively did I these display.
Even though the wide world split asunder,
Yet one needs to live and love and play.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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