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Audio and Video Music:
Excidentis Foliae.
By Damiano Baldoni.
Performed by Damiano Baldoni
at the
Free Music Archive
under an Attribution
license.
Poems About
Other Social
Issues
Cynicism comes from
self-disgust,
Yearning for a world one has surrendered.
No vision is complete but in repose,
Implicit in the steady gaze within.
Come, then, to know that good and evil must
In everyone with due respect be rendered,
So delicate their dance, as much in those
Not cynical as in those steeped in
sin.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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