Here's someone to admire:

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I think I found what really matters.
Shoo my unfluctuating, bratty lamentations.







Shah's doing better yet again.
Time to study.

"And Nature Smiled"
by Allan Koepke


On the hillside grew a lovely rose,
a beauty to behold
The sun and rain did bless the rose,
and nature smiled, it was told

Proud was the rose midst the widowhood,
its fragrance pure as finest gold
All creation understood
and bowed, as its petals would unfold

Soon the weeds did gather 'round the rose
"Share with us your beauty," they asked in coy repose
"Give us each one petal, for then we all will be
beautiful and worthy, to stand with dignity"

"Run from the beggar's ticks, run from the horsetail,
run, run away, " was the cry of the loon
"Stay," cried the shepherd's purse, "Stay," cried the thorn tree
"Listen to your heart, " came a plea from the moon

Then a stillness settled on the land
The rose, in all her widsom, stretched out a gentle hand
and touched each one around her; none was to be denied
She knew the secret of their beauty came from deep inside

"Each of you is part of a plan from above.
You give life to others, there is no greater love
Be strong inone another, and then you all will see
you won't need any petals, you have your dignity"

On the hillside great a lovely rose,
a friend amid the wild
The sun and rain did bless the rose,
and nature smiled

And nature smiled.