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THE EARTH'S Lt>..MENT
Before you came it was empty. My barren soils knew not of man, For no man bothered me.
Now you have come And settled down And made changes.
You rule my resources as though they were yours Man will repent.
You brought many changes: Birth and death,
Health and disease, Wealth and poverty, Happiness and sorrow , Intelligence and stupidity, Peace and war
I do not want them.
Without birth, there would be no death;
And without health, there would be no disease;
And without wealth, there would be no poverty;
And without happiness, there would be no sorrow;
And without intelligence , there would be no stupidity; And without peace, there would be no war.
So man, return from where you came. I do not want you; I do not need you.
Michael Jackson
My life is formed of unending turmoil There is no escape tmtil death.
It seems that forever, I fight uphill And fall again.
I must continue;
I know that I can never escape the inevitable, Y et neither can I accept it.
Can this mental war be unique to me?
No, again.
Y et I am not able to stop this battle
My life, I feel, must end in turmoil,
Then peace, I will fight and fall
Many times;
Never to say die, but to reach my peak. A peak unknown.
A strange search, an unequal fight Strange is my mind, but stranger still Life.
Graham Benton
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