EMERGENCE

Lyrics written and owned by Chantele Delaine

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(Dedicated to Plato and Book VII)

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I've just crawled out of the cave

Just learned I've got these things called legs

Which compel me to move to higher ground

I had discovered

I could move myself

Once chains fell from me unbound

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I can see clearer now

Shadows retreat from my eyes

I bite from the apple

And relegate myself to what I surmise

Complies to my needs' hierarchy

At least I have comfort

I have say in this new reality

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Here I am still alive

Despite or because of all I have survived

Perceptions of old no longer hinder me

Are they just obstacles

Or perhaps

They lead to liberty?

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Sometimes circumstances

Peg me further up or down the pole

Some of them may or not be

Beyond my immediate control

But I no longer fear the fall

Just gives me time

To work on my condition overhaul

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