Songs of life
Ecclesiastes 1:9
9 What exists now is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing truly new on earth.
Songs of life
Is life a song … that has been sung before?
With a refrain hummed in repetition
A verse here and there with a different tone
composed in part by malnutrition
A melody sung from afar
and played by someone else
I know the words composed by strife,
nothing new within myself
All the songs and all the lyrics
I lived before in someone else
It seems so strange … but it is for certain,
that no new songs are sung out there
In the news from day to day
nothing new shows under the sun
All things that are … have been before
so search in Truth before the day is done
Jan Wienen
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