Simple Pleasures Rest on Complex Piers

Music: Fugue in C# Minor. By  Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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Simple pleasures rest on complex piers Engineered to stand against the wind, A latticework of love that lasts the years, Steel lace on which we ply our passions blind. On certain days, however, we recall Necessary links to worlds below, Seasons of remembrance that with small Gifts of grace rekindle what we know. Revel, then, within, and celebrate Each tangled thread that binds you to your life, Embracing the regrets that are your fate, Traveling again the roads to light. In such sweet seasons love, however wrought, Neither what you feared nor what you sought, Grants audience to sentiment unstained, So pure but treasured tinctures are retained.