The End of Beginning

Stumbling across the hard wood floors

On chubby legs still learning to run

Avoiding all the interior doors

Only aiming to learn the joys of having fun

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Last not will the excited joys of youth

Eventually, stopped cold in their tracks by some form of pain

From the ouch of losing that first baby tooth

To the sorrow of being caught in life's many days of rain

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First heartaches caused by the inevitability of loss

Be thankful for those who have loved and comforted you

Hold onto them at any and all cost

Remember the simple things like who taught you to tie a shoe

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Then comes the hurt of that unruly first love

Held upon a pedestal you did see them upon

Thought that they fit into your life like a magic glove

Never would you have believed your friends telling you you're wrong

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With every season comes a change to your life

From the springs and excited summers of your youthful times

Things change on into the falls and winters, when you've taken a wife

Or finally been caught up by all your past karmic crimes

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Nothing lasts, not even all that is good

For everything great always comes to an end

Last forever, you wish that it would

Even the strongest of societies did eventually bend

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Nothing that's planned always goes that way

As perfect as can be, there's just not a future you'll like

Best to remember it could have been a far worse day

For they used to put rebels heads in public, on a spike