Does it teach you how to laugh?
How about how to shed tears?
To be thankful in the face 
of sorrow and misery?

Will it make you a real man?
Will it make you a woman?

		what
		will
		 ?
		  )


  one can rest
		   without sleeping.

(to face death with few regrets)
(a catalyst for my spirit)
  wild ravens
  call death
  ch-caw caw caw
  the gray birds
  cry despair
  shoom  shoom  shoom
  the sparrows
  shout war,    perrup,  skirrup

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