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The Spiral Ladder

One day A son was born His mother was a fertile land, who welcomed everyone His father was a rain, who gave mercy to everyone They met each other wherever they went The father was assimilated into the mother's gracious body She held him firmly and tenderly One day A son was born He was full of curiosity, courageous, and His eyes were shinning like diamonds; Another day, When the son saw a pitch-black sky Jeweled with tens of thousands of diamonds He wanted to go up there badly To look for something to reach there From a hill of the mother's breast A spiral ladder growing up to the sky The son climbed up step by step When the son came in the middle He looked down, far down The father praised him in showing a glittering ocean ?Where dolphins and fishes were jumping On and off the wave The mother admired him in blossoming colorful flowers Growing from green carpet ?When he looked back To face to the pitch-black infinity He wondered if he could continue this stepping or not Anxiety But more than that Desire for achievement He picked up a piece of diamond closest to him As his talisman And put it in his pocket At the top He breathed a sigh of relief Here, it is the top of the top of the top For memory He wanted to leave his name there Putting his hand in the pocket He touched a piece of the black It had been the fraction of diamond Heated by the stars To be transformed into the graphite Grasping it He wrote his name large on the universe Perhaps Because of the gravity The name fell to the earth To be scattered all over the planet Since then Every time a newborn baby arrives His/her parents name their baby With a piece of the name fallen from the sky Mixed with their unconditional love

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