Beyond

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When I leave this world
I want to live on as a tree
My soul nourishing
The branches reaching out to the sky.
I want birds to carry my seeds
To distant lands.
I will give myself back
From which I came
And I will exist forever
In the very atoms of the forest
And all the life it gives

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