as actors artists taking charge
of roles of destiny of fate
of philosophies too grand to state
So rather then we make them shrink
to a macrocosm where we think
we let them see the players pass
like Tyndall projections in a glass
We dance We see through
circumstance and think through trance
We dance We play and set our wits to
wing
We find the source we lose the thing and
still we sing We sing until we lose our voice
We feel the need to vent our choice We
hear the chord the steady prance
of heartbeat offbeat chance We twist
as we climb We dance
We live We know stars will attest
to time and space we did exist
We seize with dauntless will
a measure of the stuff that separates all life
from that which never breathes we rarefy our time
before the curtain falls in ways bizarre
unique
Because We Live
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