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IN PENSIVE MOOD



In pensive mood I passed the day
Wasting my life and time away,
'Hush,' I heard someone cry, 'Come my child, come and die,
Why live, the world's not fit, come with God, come and sit.
We have a place for those that pray, a reason, a quest, a time of day.
A place to live, a place of freedom where one can give.
Your life is nothing, a worthless prance.
Come my child, come and dance."

They play with shovels, executing their wrath,
Aligning themselves with mythical resistance
Bordering on a fanaticism, unyielding, indivisible:
Look round.

They play with life, executing their wrath
Ambitious to one electrifying end
Worthy of insignificant silence,
Riding over seas and islands.
Look round.



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