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Tell Me Why | Poem

 
 
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A poem a day to the Millennium
December 11, 1999
 

TELL ME WHY


   the branches grow here 
   and the seeds fall to the earth and
   the wind blows across the land 
   and the rain just falls everywhere
   and makes the seeds
   grow 

   so tell me why the branches grow 
   and why the seeds fall
   so tell me why the wind blows across the land
   and why the rain falls everywhere
   and why the seeds grow

   ha I say
   I, foolish one, knave, a knome in the kings land
   ha I say to the riddles my mind makes for me
   to the why's without what for's
   ha I say 
   this night of wind and moonlight
 

- David Jackson
 

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