Ashes and Snow (Gregory Colbert)

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Ashes and Snow

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If you come to me at this moment

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Your minutes will become hours

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Your hours will become days

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And your days will become a lifetime

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To the Princess of the Elephants

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I dissapeared exactly one year ago

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On that day, I received a letter

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It called me back to the place
where my life with the Elephants began

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Please forgive me for the silence between us
has been unbroken for one year

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This letter breaks that silence

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It marks the first of my
three hundred and sixty five letters to you

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One for each day of silence

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I will never be more myself,
than in these letters

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They are my maps of the bird path

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And they are all that I know
To be true

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You will remember everything
All will be as before

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In the begining of time,
the skies were filled with flying elephants

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Every night they lay down
in the same place in the sky

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And dreamt with one eye open

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When you gaze up at the stars at night

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You are looking into the unblinking eyes
of elephants, who sleep with one eye open

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To best keep watch over us

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Ever since my house burnt down
I see the moon more clearly

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I gazed upon all the Edens that have fallen in me

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I saw Edens that I had held in my hands,
but let go

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I saw promises I did not keep

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Pains I did not sooth

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Wounds I did not heal

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Tears I did not shed

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I saw deaths I did not mourn

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Prayers I did not answer

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Doors I did not open
Doors I did not close

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Lovers I left behind

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And dreams I did not live

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I saw all that was offered to me,
that I could not accept

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I saw the letters I wished for,
but never received

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I saw all that could have been,
but never will be

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An elephant with his trunk raised
is a letter to the stars

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A breaching whale is a letter
from the bottom of the sea

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These images are a letter to my dreams

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