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Richard handwerk-10.6.2010
To dream again
Got to feel the wind on my bones
Like everyone I’m on my own
Moving on past the hemisphere
I can fly up to heaven
Moving on through the disparate masses
I will rise to live again…
Won’t you let me out
(let me in)?
It’s time to live
(time to begin)
I look around past the memories wasted
Time gone by, & love sustained
& looking out past the infinite madness
I will rise to dream again.
TINY BIRD
I SAW A TINY BIRD ON A LIMB OUT SIDE MY WINDOW
SEEING ME SHE FLEW AWAY LIKE YOU LONG AGO
LOOKING TO THE STREET AN OLD BEER CAN WAS BLOWING
LIKE THE ME YOU USE TO KNOW
DONT’ BE AFRAID TINY BIRD THE SAME WIND THAT
BLOWS THE CAN WILL GUIDE YOU HOME AGAIN
BIRDS AND CANS PEOPLE AND LANDS
ONLY TIME CAN COMAND THE WIND THAT BLOWS THEM HOME
I SAW A TINY BIRD ON A LIMB OUT SIDE MY WINDOW
SEEING ME SHE FLEW AWAY JUST LIKE ME LONG AGO
DAVID K. PIERCE BMI987532>