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So I grow listless
 
As doomsday grows near
 
I am only a child am I
 
Choices, choices.
 
 
 
Children are born free
 
In every sense of the word
 
Lose it all, yet ignorance
 
Oh the bliss
 
 
 
Give it to me but take it away
 
What is right
 
I need to choose and choose I may
 
What is right? What is?
 
 
 
How should I live?
 
I have only one.
 
A small treasure buried
 
A fawn guarding
 
 
 
I have two years left
 
The seconds are slippery to the
 
Grasping fingers which are so small
 
Too small, too small
 
 
 
Oh but my heart
 
My heart yearns to burst
 
To look at a spring and overflow
 
When will I reach there and where is the road?
 
 
 
Whom do I live for
 
Selfishness is your friend?
 
You live this once
 
Wouldn't you succumb to happiness?
 
 
 
What will give me it?
 
Service?A life of protest
 
Those who make their marks on the world
 
Do they smile on their success?
 
 
 
I want to do
 
So much yet I'm so little
 
Where to start?
 
I change myself then the world
 
 
 
I change the world.
 
It is for others
 
I change myself.
 
It is for me.
 
 
 
Oh I have one
 
Only one finite life
 
The years will slip by
 
Do I have enough do I
 
 
 
I die.
 
For whom?
 
For them or
 
for me?
 
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