“I want to find that elemental light and

Watch the penumbra of the shadows

Gradually retreat into a bright center.”

“There are many secret portals

Between the adjoining worlds —

One in silence, one in laughter,

One in darkness, and one in light.”

I am the periodic tide

On its merry-go-round

Of birth and death.

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I rise and surge before

The fall into my common

Origin with the waves