When I was a child
I could see the wind in the trees
And I heard a song in the breeze
It was there, singing out my name

But I'm not a girl
I have known the taste of defeat
And I have finally grown to believe
It will all come around again 

And though I may not
Know the answers
I can finally say I'm free
And if the questions
Led me here, then
I am who I was born to be

And so here am I
Open arms and ready to stand
I've got the world in my hands
And it feels like my turn to fly

And though I may not
Know the answers
I can finally say I'm free
And if the questions
Led me here, then
I am who I was born to be

When I was a child
There were flowers that bloomed in the night
Unafraid to take in the light
Unashamed to have braved the dark

And though I may not
know the answers
I can finally say I am free
And if the questions
led me here,then
I am who I was born to be.

~Audra Mae/Johan Fransson/Tobias Lundgren/Tim Larsson~

As sung by Susan Boyle

~~ Gerard Manley Hopkins

So brief a thing is beauty, hold it close,

As closely as your heart would hold a wing

That soon is flown again, unraveling

Its splendor down the lyric way it goes.

Drink sunsets deeply; drink their dregs of rose

That linger in the darkening sky.  A thing

Of beauty is a glory that will sing

Its way into your soul.  Your blood that flows

Will quicken into music in your veins.

Look long upon all beauty that you see --

Hushed lavender of lilacs and a tree

Armored in sudden silver of the rains.

Hold beauty closely; never let it go

Till eyes are blind and lips are pale as snow.

 ~DWH~

This

Blessed throbbing redundancy

Faintly cautious harmony

And steamy cant of sloe eyes

Softening a fierce and instant aura

This

Relevant incendiary modernity

Unfragile ageless mien

And curving lyric of a lip

Lush and precious real estate

This

Is and ever will be you