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Created on: June 08, 2009
Fluffy balls of white cotton float across the blue sky
Carried by the wind, changing shapes as they fly
I watch them as they complete their daily journey
Never allowed to stop, be it sunny or even rainy
But what my eyes can see is not really the end
It is but the beginning, where it all transcends
Where the answers do lie, where truth does await
Who we are, why and what was the reason to create
The worlds that turn, the galaxies that rotate
Like us they obey and yet they too do wait
Thousands of years, they have seen it all happen
No sign of hell as yet and no sign of any heaven
No answers yet to these secrets are we allowed
The mysteries remain of what lies beyond the clouds
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