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First Comes Experience

Alternate Titles / Variants

• First comes experience

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Version 1 - First comes experience _260419_125748.pdf

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## Page 1

First comes experience 
First comes
 experience
Before the words can speak
Before the hands know what they hold
Before the strong turns weak
Not for profit
Not for fame
Not to wear a borrowed name
But through honesty
Through the fracture
We learn what still remains
In the broken
In mistakes
In every path the body takes
In every loss
In every ache

## Page 2

We find the shape we could not fake
It's in what we learn
It's in the compassion
The grace we show
The empathy we know
In how we lift each other up
When one feels so low
So when the dark feels endless
When fear becomes the frame
May something in this living world
Still call out our name
And may we come to terms with existence
Not by hiding from the flame
But by holding one another
Returning changed [echo]
May we come to terms with existence
Without fear
Without shame

## Page 3

Still becoming
Still becoming

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