How To:

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I want to learn how to knit a sweater in the long dark hours of the night

I want to make a dancer out of you, to teach you how to live in the movement

you want to know how to sit, for days and hours and minutes without thinking

can you be, just be, without asking the world how to be

don't ask me your name, you don't know how to be someone without a name

you have to learn how to live without labeling life and putting it in a wrapped box for Christmas

but life is a gift you say, but I want you to know how to give it away

let's sit in silence and break bread with those who know how to make a garden out of a leaf

this is just a song, don't worry about singing it when you don't know how to sing the right words

you are an imposter, someone who does not know how to be in a room

you are standing when you should sit, you don't know how to capture the light

there is a window by your left side, don't you know how to watch the world go by

you think you have to do things, learn how to be a person before you do a life

nina