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       Life is not an open plain 
      Life is not an open plain 
        when all is said and done! 
        Things depend upon the past 
        - from that all things become: 
        Choices, paths and journeys 
        forced, or dreamt, or won 
        - the only point of choice we have 
        is in the present breath; 
        May we wake to that eternity 
        in joyful conscious death. 
        Not until then, at last, may we be born 
        In blissful, enlightened mind 
        To help all those that here remain 
        follow the path to their end game.  
      © Sophie Brown 2003 
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