A Touch [Of Strings]

A touch of Strings in music

May constitute a Riff.

A touch of Unoccluded

May make a grown man Stiff.

A touch of Breeze in Phoenix

Gives bus stop folk Relief,

But when you touch Insanity

You risk eternal Grief.

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The touching Acts of Heroes

Have seen us through Disaster,

And touching Scenes on Hardboards

Might shine like Alabaster,

But when a Midas Touch of Greed

Plants its profane, corruptive Seed

We must ensure we do not feed

Its hellspawn would-be Master.

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The Will to Live is one fine thing,

The Strength to Love’s another,

We must march on with Hymns that sing

Our Love of Earth our Mother,

And fight the old barbaric ways

With ingenuity that stays

The killing hand, then leave the maze

Of Conflict, Sister, Brother.