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He shows a twinkle in his eyes;

He displays a bright happy smile.

   But despair is what he hides inside.



       Finally escaping the confinements of his melancholy

       dream of dark love,

           he decides to take a relieving walk outside,

         for the day was beautiful and he needed the light

            of the joyous sun rays to shine upon him.

    Greeted by cool, friendly breezes

    and guided by the sounds of the ruffle of leaves

    under his boots,

            he is reminded of a past love.

              

                  Walking, Walking, Walking

                      and suddenly,

              he hears a melody in the air.

       It is the song of birds chirping in the branches

            to the rhythm of a familiar melody.

                  Walking, Walking, Walking

                      and suddenly,

              he catches sight of leaves falling

           from the branches of the mighty oak trees,

             swaying to the rhythm of the melodic

                     song of the birds.

                  Walking, Walking, Walking

                      and suddenly,

          he feels the presence of someone behind him.

            He turns to see Lauryn Hill singing to

            the melodic rhythm of the birds while

                catching a few fallen leaves.

                        

                        Lauryn Hill-

                        so graceful,

                        so calm,

                        so serene,

              outstretches her arms to the heavens

            and begins to change the tune of her song.

As each note bellows from her voice,

   all the leaves from her hands and the surrounding trees

    simutaneously take fallen flight and become enveloped

     by the cool, friendly breezes.

In an unexpecting bluster, the leaves rush around him and

   Lauryn before they are swept away high into the sky.

He is awed and astonished by this spectacle,

   but notices that the mighty oak trees are now

   ugly and barren.

              "Lauryn, why have the leaves gone?"

                   He receives no answer.

            Instead, Lauryn continues to sing to the

          melodic rhythm of the birds while she softly

         takes his hand and leads him on a cracked-brick

              thoroughway proceeding into a park.



The sun begins to disappear behind a progressing wave of

gray clouds,

     and the ugly, barren mighty oak trees lose their

     luster and shine in color.

        Still holding his hand;

        Still singing to the melodic rhythm of the birds,

                  Lauryn comes to a hault.

                  "Why have you stopped?"

                   He receives no answer.

          Instead, Lauryn turns to him to reveal streams

               of tears rolling down her face.

As her tears hit the ground,

   the sky swells with dark gray clouds and releases an

   outpouring of rain.

       He wants to run and take cover, but can't because

       he is held in place by Lauryn's intertwined hand,

                          Lauyrn's melodic singing,

                   and Lauryn's crying.

         He doesn't quite understand why she is crying

          and why they're standing in drenching rain.

   But soon enough, he begins to comprehend matters when

      he looks high into the branches of an adjacent

       mighty oak tree to see two birds sheltering

        each other from the rain with their wings.

Reminded of past love and an unfulfilled desire,

      he begins to cry,

                   cry,

                   cry,(UNFINISHED!!!!)