Life’s Pattern

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You have tried to hide

behind pride

and violence,

behind the burning image

of a nation.

But I see you.

Before hate could root

in barren ground,

a child loved,

and covered the Earth

with footsteps

and laughter.

Allow your desire to control

to fall 

like a leaf in Autumn,

to be healed by Winter

and return as light 

with Spring.

Beneath these stars

we all

are nameless,

and in Life's pattern

forever made

the same.

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