if the seas catch fire

Dive for dreams

or a slogan may topple you

(trees are their roots

and wind is wind)

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Trust your heart

if the seas catch fire

(and live by love

though the stars walk backward)

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Honour the past

but welcome the future

(and dance your death

away at this wedding)

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Never mind a world

with its villains or heroes

(for god likes girls

and tomorrow and the earth)

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[E.E. Cummings, ninety-five poems]

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