The Book of Counted Sorrows - Ticktock


The Book of Counted Sorrows

from Ticktock - 1997


To see what we have never seen,
to be what we have never been.
To shed the chrysalis and fly,
depart the earth, kiss the sky,
to be reborn, be someone new:
is this a dream or is it true?

Can our future be cleanly shorn
from a life to which we're born?
Is each of us a creature free -
or trapped at birth by destiny?
Pity those who believe the latter.
Without freedom, nothing matters.



In the real world
as in dreams
nothing is quite
what it seems.




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