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Music: Slow
Motion, Part 3.
By Peter Rudenko.
Performed by Peter Rudenko at the
Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons
Attribution license.
Friends are prisoners
of expectation,
Reflected in the mirror of their need.
Instead of being happy on their own,
Each knows that one cannot survive alone,
Nor think unless another plants the seed.
Dependent all for selfhood on relation,
So to be fed, must one the other
feed.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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