The Virgin
Discovering Wisdom in the City Lights: The Virgin's Journey
Lyrics
She went off to the city
She moved to the city
To find what she was looking for
Seeking what she lacked
To identify, to really try
Attempting self-discovery
To find herself some hope
Searching for hope within herself
With the summer sun for laughing
Experiencing joy in summer, pain in winter
And the winter rain did pour
Enduring challenges and hardships
She was lovelier from learning
Becoming more lovely through life's lessons
And from living, loving more
Gaining wisdom and love from living
From her dancing love and young soul
Derived from her youthful spirit and dancing love
And the gypsies in her dream
Symbolic mention of dreamlike experiences with gypsies
To the pulse of stark acceptance
Facing reality with acceptance
When the winds began to freeze
Confronting challenges when life becomes difficult
With no curfews left to hold her
Breaking free from restrictions
And no walls to shield her pain
Experiencing vulnerability without protective barriers
Finding out that facts were older
Discovering the timeless nature of truths
And that life forms are insane.
Realizing the chaotic and irrational nature of life
The presence of protection seemed
Feeling a loss of security
To fade, as did her doubt
Doubt diminishing with fading protection
That she now was no exception
Accepting she is not an exception to challenges
Nor was the love who pushed her out
Acknowledging the love that urged her to explore
Though the streets cried out,
City streets echoing her departure
Go, homesick
Feeling a longing for home
Virtues strength of mind would ring
Inner strength expressed in times of difficulty
In the maladies of meaning
Struggling to find meaning in life's challenges
The sad song she learned to sing.
Expressing sorrow through a learned, melancholic song
Now, her teachers and philosophers
Seeking wisdom from teachers and philosophers
And the poet's silver throat
Valuing the insights of poets
Are the vessels which on wisdom's karmic ocean she will float.
Embarking on a journey of wisdom and understanding
Was this her revolution,
Questioning if her experiences are a personal revolution
Just a child in love's crusade,
Reflecting on youthful love as a form of crusade
With the question in her innocence
Pondering innocence amid life's questions
Through the lies her eyes betrayed?
Considering the discrepancy between truth and perception
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