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HOW TO LIVE FOREVER

When you look into your daughter’s brown eyes 
And see  the eyes of your own mother long gone
But  still smiling there,   and understand that she
Too will hear  something of you in her own son’s sighs;

When you pass a bearded hobo in a thunderstorm
Standing on the bridge and in a flash you see that the world 
Is filled with such people, and that Christ himself 
Also stood like that on the road to  Jerusalem;

When you hear a nightingale and marvel as you realize 
That all nightingales have sung the same song 
From time immemorial;
Or see a butterfly and admire its colors  just as 

Roman soldiers did before battle for Rome’s fame; 
And know that your daughter’s daughter will chase 
Almost the same butterfly around some 
Future garden, almost the same;

When time ceases to have meaning  for you
Because you realize instinctively that you see and feel
All the same experiences people have always felt :
Then,  with the universe you become one and true  -
 
And you live forever.

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