I forgot the names of stars and rivers-every one-I mix flora up with fauna, and I stumble over numbers. And yet for days end I'll watch a river drifting past. My true loves will remind the birds and waves...

Song:
for those who have been burned
By the illusion of success
Yet live on in the ruins 
Of their disastrous dreams
Determined to survive.

For the ambitions that unsettle
And incite men to war
With fatal results

For the quiet tears of those
Who've forgotten how to smile
Who resign their pain to...

For the mysteries,
Imponderable, divine.
Of silence, of a flower

For the beauty I adore
And gaze at, in wonder

For everything in life
That death knows to guard

---I bless the destiny
That God has given us!