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Once of a Pattern

from A Shade of Reason by Roland Digh

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Once of a Pattern

I remember once to days as a child, of a frolic alone to a stream
With silent fascination on a wounded dying bird
a helpless but courageous young being
For who but a child would sense ‘naught of guilt
and do homage to nature divine
While brushing a tear out of pity in the rain
Could quietly kill him and then suffer the pain
and then run to his mother and cry, and he cried


And once as a boy if I serve my recall
in an angry and foolish young way
To argue and conquer a true friend for long
caused a battle of which he must pay
For in matching his sorrow against a true tie
as sudden the start came the end
For only a young boy who seems to know all
Can repute at his anger, despise his own fall
and can stretch out his hand to a friend, to his friend


And young men are wise so they tell us each day,
I remember of being that kind
With all as their servant to bow at their knees
with the world of their knowledge sublime
But young men can weaken far swifter than most
by the turn of a young woman’s eye
And from kings who have reigned and have conquered all foes
Who have scarred tens of thousands, left widows to morn
but in the arms of a young girl they cry, and they lie


And now as a grown man, in body not soul,
for the soul ages slowly over time
Having been through my visions, my dreams and my prayers
and the memories we’ve all left behind
But what of an elder, would all this be lost
would the past seem to fade from his mind
For who could foretell of an elderly man
When the life of a child, still unlived, still unplanned
Was helping a young bird to die, and he died

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from A Shade of Reason, released January 1, 2014

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Roland Digh British Columbia

A British writer now living on Vancouver Island. Loves writing songs in different genres and hearing them through other artists. After playing on six continents in some fifty-eight countries he is settling down to write another album.

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