Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings have been from the moment they began? They are born of … - Omar Khayyám

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Where is an intimate
friend
who’ll hear the secret
from me straight out–
of what human beings
have been
from the moment they began?
They
are
born
of toil
and molded
from
the clay of sorrow.
They wander the world for a time,
then
set
off.