Undestroyed

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 Here, locked in my own shadow for almost 40 years
 I have reached my hand through stone and steel and razor wire
 And touched the heart of the world
 Here in the shadowed night
 Walls, bars, gratings dissolve into light
 (And I unloose my soul)
 Into light
 (And fly through the inner darkness of my being)
 Into light
 (I become transparent)
 Into light
 (A bright shadow)
 Into light
 (A bird of dreams singing from the tree of life)
 I am undestroyed
 My life is my sundance
 I am undestroyed
 My life is my sundance
 I am undestroyed
 My life is my sundance
 I am undestroyed
 My life is my sundance
 A man who has hung from the tree of life
 Has a special compact with pain
 He'll be hard to break
 Sundance takes place inside, not outside of me
 Hard to break
 To give your flesh is to give your life
 And what you have given you can no longer lose
 Pain explodes into bright white light
 Of wordless vision, revelation
 Of what it is to be in touch with all being and all beings
 Every time a pin pricks your finger from then on
 The small pain will be a reminder of that larger pain
 And a still greater realm beyond reach of all pain
 I am undestroyed
 My life is my sundance
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 (And if the stars have a meaning)
 (Then my life has a meaning)