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When we die,
our bodies are hard
and stiff,
though when we are born
we are gentle
and weak.
A new sapling
is tender
and full of sap,
yet at their death,
they dry out
and wither.
What this means
is that the stiff
and unyielding
are students of death,
while the gentle
and malleable
or students of life;
is it not the tree that bends
that never breaks?

~LT