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Magic Within
Now you see it
now you ...
but the force of the illusion
is in the believing
and in giving ourselves to belief
a dismal world of things
erupts in a fountain
of passion
and LIFE!
 
The eyes of children see it
the saints bestow it
but we are blinded
by the rabbit of the hat
never once accepting
that it may not have been there...
we'd rather believe in sham.
 
So we become what we believe
and turn from the magic within us
and our reality is lost
to the possibility
of the magic of love.
 
Give me illusion! Show me wonders!
I'm a child, I see the rainbow
as the gateway to riches within
Give me crayons of magic
to color my canvass of love.
 
And thus will I become --
a child's crayon-rainbow
and I will fade,
for now you see me
and now you ...
 

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