Happy Birthday

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Born anew every moment;
A new cell, a new tissue,
New atoms and new molecules,
Forming in me every second...

Yesterday's innocuous potatoes at dinner,
Metamorphosed into the new me of today...

New qualities, new discoveries,
New experiences, new truths...
Born anew every instant;

Birth and rebirth,
Till I become "Me".

The Instant

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Fire within, yet calm his bearing was;
Abuse him or jeer him,
applaud or extol him,
the calm never left his being,
the fire never dimmed...

He waited patiently,
ages and eternities...
It was as if time did not exist for him...

The fire as strong as always,
the calm, just as serene,
and he waited...

Waited, waited, waited...

Till the mists could hide it no longer,
The illusions, obscure it no further...

In an instant he saw it all.