Fulfillment Song,

by Romain Thiery in France

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“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.” Lao Tzu

 

Purpose and fulfilment are not places you can enter like a cathedral hall

they do not belt out tunes in choirs

they are but a whisper

soft like a piano

nudging shyly on the arms of men

as children hoping for their way

purpose cannot be held with enclosed hands

it is a vase in which we choose to place the flowers

the ones we picked in the meadow just for you

and when it is broken

the flowers lay wilted

remember that my friend.

All Rise and Sing

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You can cage the singer but not the song.  ~Harry Belafonte

We build ships to put in cases on display

and assemble model cars to place upon a shelf,

 but a good song or rhyme cannot be kept down.

  Its voice carries beyond the pages that hands once held.

and the melody rises with the singers that stand to their feet

hailing to all souls to both listen and to truly speak

Each song has a message that will echo and project to far lands

for the first solo "a cappella" never forgets the lyrical refrain

as soon there is a choir each holding a songbook in hand

and the melody rises with the singers that stand to their feet

hailing to all souls to both listen and to truly speak.

Echoes In the Wind

 

Who can tell the dancer from the dance?  ~William Butler Yeats