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Bloom
05:55
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It begins with a seed
Oh so small and unassuming
Not a hint of the majesty
And spectacle soon forthcoming
In a hostile world
Indifferent to this tiny seed
Seeking an open clearing
In crowded soil choked by weeds
The chances are slim
The future is grim
For this sapling to blossom at all
Now what is needed most
To realize these dauntless dreams
Is to grasp a gaze at you
Bathed in your brilliant beams
If only given a moment's chance
To take firm root and grow
With love and shelter and nurturing care
Its beauty and brilliance will show
So bold in its hue
Its colors so true
Revealing its beauty to all
Your light emanates
Your warmth permeates
You allow me to bloom (to bloom, to bloom)
The once vulnerable seed
Has grown into a mighty tree
Strong and secure in stature
To branch out and bloom so free
A beauty mature
Perfect and pure
A beacon of radiance to all
Your light emanates
Your warmth permeates
You allow me to bloom (to bloom, to bloom)
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Machina
05:52
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Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick
The release and capture
Spinning gears and rigid mechanisms
Life mechanical
The past and future
Interactions of fluid organisms
I seek out patterns
An arrangement closely knit
Sorted into a grand classification
I find comfort in order
Understanding how the pieces fit
One by one yielding to unification
The framework is set
The logic as yet is soundly expressed
My mind is at rest
Chaos interrupts
As I began to feel confidence
Within my magnificently managed machinery
You appear and inject creatively colorful unpredictability into it all
I must reevaluate
I must recalculate my approach
Reacting to the new enchanting mystery
I must truthfully admit
I rather enjoy it through and through
Tearing apart all the cogs of my machinery
The old system had become grotesque
So dust covered and set in its way
In an attempt to discover beauty statuesque
I obtained a drab scene of dull shades of gray in its place
Shattering absolutes, new-found dreaming renews adoration
Vita ex machina
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Whole
04:35
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Hole, lacking fulfillment
Missing just one last piece
Try as I may to be wholly sufficient
Obtaining this remains out of reach
All that I achieve, all I accomplish
How farther could I reach with assistance?
Someone to make me whole
Life's greatest gifts, all the memories had
Have greater meaning if shared
Sole, singular vision
Strong, clear in its focus
Though I may see what's in front of me clearly
Blind we are to our periphery
Life seen through the lens of my existence
So narrow in scope, limited distance
Open up my eyes to a sight
Richer than my tired black and white
You help make me whole
Challenge me, strengthen me
Inspire me to be more
Expose me to new thoughts and new ways
Life, completely lived
Whole, give in completely
To all my ambitions
Conceding not to my old inhibitions
Walking my path with a companion
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Soñar
08:51
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We met in a dream
A beauty of perfect elegance graced my sight
Was it as it seemed?
Would this wonderful prelude persist beyond the night?
A miracle so rare
I was unprepared
To say what needed to be said
Before the opportunity fled
Each day the dream returned
The motions and sights
The sounds and the lights
But dimmer, softer, and weakened each time
Increasingly concerned
I tried to deny it
But actions implied it
The dream had faded, diminished with time
So powerless to stop
Losing my grip on this intangibly sweet spectre
Quickly waking up
Paradise flew away on an unyieldingly terse vector
If I could return
With what I have learned
To say what sadly went unsaid
Before all hopeful dreaming was dead
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No Más
05:24
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Invitation
Lovingly extended, but my reach has come up short
Once a mighty symphony of beauty, attraction
Soured now by discord and cacophony
Thoughts careen and crash within my mind
Amore
No Más
Abatido
Blinded by biology, impulse and instinct took control
A misfire of neurons, nervous flutters, butterflies, stammers and cold chills of another kind
Crashing from euphoric high, facing now a harsh reality
Cerebral cortex suddenly short circuiting, chemical imbalance fully floods my mind
Overwhelmed with unreciprocated love
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Maelstrom
04:20
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The sea is serene
The once wild winds have waned
The water's soft sheen
A cool, calm composure it has gained
Ready to embark on a vast voyage
Boldly blazing a trail ahead
Making mirrored waves in your stead
Setting sail on your command to 'engage'
I will be your port of safe harbor
In rough seas I will be your anchor
I will be a shelter from the maelstrom
In all the journeys in time and space,
What is a traveler without a loyal companion?
Amber pierces the demure dawn sky
The sun breaks free of the horizon's ally
Should the sun sear too strongly
Baking your Icarus wings
Should the skies swiftly sour
Bringing thunder and lightening
I will be your port of safe harbor
In rough seas I will be your anchor
I will be a shelter from the maelstrom
In a prior scene
Your companions promised the moon
As a chimera in a dream,
They showed their evanescent nature and fled so soon
Despite those deserters' show of character so poor
I will weather the storms and squalls
I will remain through the tide's rise and fall
We will intrepidly embrace the world we explore
I will be your port of safe harbor
In rough seas I will be your anchor
Holding fast waiting for you faithfully
Shore to shore, sea to sea, here I'll be
I will be a shelter from the maelstrom
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The Fountain
06:10
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The air is mostly still
An almost imperceptible breeze drifts by
The night sky is overcast
No Moon at all to remedy this darkness
Absent from its celestial post
Instead a lamppost burns for me
That unnatural orange-pink glow illuminates
I am here again tonight
Like on so many previous nights
Again I pay visit to an old friend
To hear him speak his timeless speech
He is silent Tonight
My friend, the fountain, typically sputters and gargles, hisses and roars
It is of course nothing but babble
But I'm soothed by it anyway
The chaos and the crashing
So constant is this disorder that it fades away
Replaced by a soft, even nothingness
No matter how extremely strong these turbulent storms
They're drowned out under the waves of noise
The pouring rain becomes a drop in the ocean
The raging hurricane acquiesces to an infinite sea of tranquility
Tonight my friend is silent
The water drained, the pools dry as a bone
He, too, is absent from his post
He is silent Tonight
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The Stars
04:59
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The Earth stands still, wrapped in dark wings
The bed of shimmer solace, drift in a sea of sleep
Alone the traveler gazes past the stones
Before the blazing colors, the anatomy of the sun
And all the world can't see
The life that drifts so free
The stars
The trails of light leave us blinded,
The silent giants in the ring, leave us breathless
The traveler wonders how he got here
A heaven beyond the dreams, a light behind the dark
And all the world can't see
The life that drifts so free
The stars
The stars
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9. |
Danseuses de Delphes
03:14
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