tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10014741299751050382024-03-13T05:24:58.299-07:00poetreehuggerpoetreehuggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02539171535845712047noreply@blogger.comBlogger392125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001474129975105038.post-82107382153552851742021-03-22T08:38:00.001-07:002021-03-22T08:38:32.071-07:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D187MHUCzso/YFi5Hg79keI/AAAAAAAAIH4/Sw7dloJZTnACZ8ZnyUPkRaBdy0w8AtIKgCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/07237F1B-7473-440B-8210-09C97D82CD7F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D187MHUCzso/YFi5Hg79keI/AAAAAAAAIH4/Sw7dloJZTnACZ8ZnyUPkRaBdy0w8AtIKgCPcBGAYYCw/w266-h400/07237F1B-7473-440B-8210-09C97D82CD7F.jpeg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><u>Drift</u></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Some day I will step on my ice floe</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Drift away from the fevered world</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Into the dark mist waiting</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Far from every word</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">In peace I will ride the deep waters</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">In silence to what I can’t see</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">When I reach it I step across slowly</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">And kneel at my moss covered tree</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">And lie me down beneath it</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Let my eyes travel up its dark heights</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">And my body go down to its roots until</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I close my eyes on the light.<br /><br /></div>poetreehuggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02539171535845712047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001474129975105038.post-9061747334820779312021-01-18T12:22:00.001-08:002021-01-18T12:22:18.741-08:00You are my<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-87z4eTdfHS4/YAXs-32P61I/AAAAAAAAIEQ/DPFtrQyHXSg1hYDzsVHAxWTnHITovnI5ACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/85B177D7-224D-4348-B179-80C3D9AE2B33.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-87z4eTdfHS4/YAXs-32P61I/AAAAAAAAIEQ/DPFtrQyHXSg1hYDzsVHAxWTnHITovnI5ACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/85B177D7-224D-4348-B179-80C3D9AE2B33.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">If</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I ever am a river</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I will flow to you</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Like gravity you pull me and</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">The pull is never ending</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">And my destination true</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">If</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I ever am a tree</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I will grow to you</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">You are the sky that I will reach for</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Every limb and leaf will seek more</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Of the sunlight that is you</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">If</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I ever am a planet</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I will revolve around you</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">In sweeping grandeur hurtling</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Through empty airless silence</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Never doubting you my centre</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Now only me,</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I know this:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">What would be this house without you?</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Teardrops, dry leaves, vacant space.</div>poetreehuggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02539171535845712047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001474129975105038.post-11704167977880929122020-09-15T10:48:00.000-07:002020-09-15T10:48:38.042-07:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iCpT3yESp3s/X147Rl1usJI/AAAAAAAAHxo/qkdaFZRIzkc9pI_RnASq8sxKyUH-iWEawCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DB1AE556-6178-4C26-9DEC-DB00F9C3E6D2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iCpT3yESp3s/X147Rl1usJI/AAAAAAAAHxo/qkdaFZRIzkc9pI_RnASq8sxKyUH-iWEawCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/DB1AE556-6178-4C26-9DEC-DB00F9C3E6D2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tuXN7_UUev4/X147RziF6MI/AAAAAAAAHxs/Ca8qaK0b1koAgRv9PrTPgofHHSa-45MXgCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/54EE42D9-9339-4EF7-89FD-428DE51C72FD.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tuXN7_UUev4/X147RziF6MI/AAAAAAAAHxs/Ca8qaK0b1koAgRv9PrTPgofHHSa-45MXgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/54EE42D9-9339-4EF7-89FD-428DE51C72FD.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">In the soft light at the end of the night</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Sleep slips away and I let it</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Before thought begins I gird up my shins</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Throw off the bad dream and forget it</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Before the day's heat rubber boots on my feet</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I walk to the dew glittered garden</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The bending of back and the weight of the sack</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Cancel all painful thoughts like a pardon.</div>poetreehuggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02539171535845712047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001474129975105038.post-20349576697621255252020-09-13T08:25:00.000-07:002020-09-13T08:25:27.271-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwMk5PqZlCc/X145dxPnG8I/AAAAAAAAHxY/BGUY6KtwYqodERwadWkjDmlKU-l0ZUWqACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DC61EA95-DB7B-4143-8C27-DA08D417D4A3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwMk5PqZlCc/X145dxPnG8I/AAAAAAAAHxY/BGUY6KtwYqodERwadWkjDmlKU-l0ZUWqACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/DC61EA95-DB7B-4143-8C27-DA08D417D4A3.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><u>Jephthah's Daughter Returning</u></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Like Jephthah's daughter returning from the hills</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I take each step, the pounding stills</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">It is over, then, the end is near</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">There’s no more room for dancing here.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">My aged legs ache anyway</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">My knees are weak, I sometimes sway</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">And some I love have gone ahead</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Where I must shuffle now instead.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The land around me still is green</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I leave to others what might have been</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The time is short and fleeting now</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I move into the final bow.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">They said deny it, escape it, flee</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">But they haven’t seen what I can see</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The wildest dance of leap and bend</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Leads only where all dances end.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">And so I walk my head held high</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: uictfonttextstylebody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">My father’s word is I shall die.</div>poetreehuggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02539171535845712047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001474129975105038.post-85323223346474018892019-12-01T18:17:00.000-08:002019-12-01T18:17:24.919-08:00That time I walked in the October night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Walk in the dark</div>
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You can’t see your ground</div>
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You keep taking steps</div>
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But with knees slightly bent</div>
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Prepared to absorb</div>
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An unexpected jolt</div>
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From a dip or a bump</div>
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You can’t see the ground</div>
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The stars in their beauty</div>
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May draw your attention</div>
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The trees waving peacefully </div>
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Make you relax</div>
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As you walk in the dark</div>
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Remember your knees</div>
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Be ready for impact</div>
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You can’t see the ground</div>
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<u>Shakespeare Out of Doors</u></div>
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To sit reading ancient poetry</div>
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On my leaf-pattered porch,</div>
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The wind glad swirling in the trees</div>
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Who welcome me with waves and dancing</div>
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(What better than to enjoy the trees’ goodwill),</div>
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I can tell to no one.</div>
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In solitude I have great company:</div>
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The bard brings tears and laughter.</div>
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My voice speaks his words;</div>
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His word my heart recites.</div>
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If this is how my fading life declines</div>
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I will let it slide,</div>
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Look old age full in the eyes</div>
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And find its pearl delights.</div>
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Slow dancing in the sky above me</div>
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Hovering, soaring,</div>
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Astonishing, the beauty</div>
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They pulled the heart right out of me</div>
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And left me feebly standing</div>
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Left behind on the dismal earth. </div>
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If you can’t weep</div>
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Walking through the woods</div>
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When can you weep. </div>
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<u>The Walk</u></div>
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I saw the brightness of the lichen after rain</div>
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On small trees growing in the woods. </div>
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I saw a river of whitetail deer, silently </div>
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Flowing across the path a quarter mile ahead.</div>
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I saw a pair of cavorting robins</div>
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Looping near the ground</div>
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Before they flew away to be alone together.</div>
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When I get home I pick twigs</div>
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From the upper branches of my hair.</div>
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Healed by trees</div>
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Healed by an owl</div>
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Healed by solitude,</div>
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Walks in the woods</div>
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And wine</div>
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Healed by sunlight through the leaf</div>
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Healed by deer, by snow,</div>
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By chickadees.</div>
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Healed by rare wild flowers growing. </div>
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Healed by vines to tops of trees. </div>
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Healed by stars and falling stars</div>
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Healed by full moon</div>
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Healed but scarred</div>
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And knowing that there will be griefs</div>
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And hoping for more healing trees. </div>
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Do you write down the words</div>
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That you hear in your head</div>
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Do you read them later</div>
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Surprised what they said</div>
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Do the words take over</div>
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And fling themselves down</div>
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Til you forget your own children </div>
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Because you are bound</div>
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By compulsion to write them</div>
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To write them all out</div>
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And later you’ll read them</div>
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What’s that all about</div>
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As if some other someone has taken you over</div>
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But you remain faithful, you heard word lover. </div>
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God’s heart is strong and made of steel</div>
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So it won’t break from the pain her children feel.</div>
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God’s eyes are red and blaze with woe</div>
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And ache from the constant tears that flow.</div>
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God’s hands are wrinkled, but reaching and warm</div>
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Welcoming, but within the storm.</div>
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God is old and always here</div>
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Her name is love and never fear.</div>
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God is far; God is within.</div>
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Sometimes I will allow myself</div>
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A song of lament no one hears</div>
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Oh god oh god oh god</div>
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It goes</div>
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As I walk</div>
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As I think</div>
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As I hear. </div>
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And lament, lament,</div>
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I sing as I walk.</div>
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The comfort is in the singing</div>
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Of the song no one may ever hear</div>
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Or Someone may hear, I not knowing</div>
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Sing and listen,</div>
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And listen and sing.</div>
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When the last person walks out of the room</div>
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I think about that I will die.</div>
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And it does not disturb me,</div>
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So I think I do not really think that I will die.</div>
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But sometimes I want to die,</div>
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And that does not really disturb me</div>
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So I think I do not really want to die.</div>
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So then I live.</div>
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I think I will walk home while it is blue.</div>
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A Manitoba January dusk.</div>
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So quiet are the woods</div>
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I wish it was my heart.</div>
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As if Christmas isn’t hard enough</div>
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With its all your family home</div>
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And you not telling</div>
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One will never come home again</div>
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Not shouting your anger</div>
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But pushing hard a silent smile</div>
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A week later there’s taking down the tree</div>
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Alone as it only can be</div>
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When the anger wells</div>
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And the sorrow flows</div>
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At each ornament dated in the beautiful past</div>
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And the remembered guilt when they put up the tree</div>
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How I turned away crying inside</div>
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And please god next year</div>
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May I be able to join and help deck out the tree</div>
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And make Christmas a joy</div>
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For those still gathering memories.</div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></u>
<u><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Dream of Discussing God</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(In a dream someone asked me)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Don't you find that God is an arrogant child?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">("Listening to no one and running wild,"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I thought in answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I remember the weathered face and the piercing light eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And how he smiled slightly as he talked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As if he knew Him.)</span></div>
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<u><br /></u>
<u>Between Grief and Going On</u><br />
To find a balance takes something.<br />
The deep dizziness,<br />
The indecision.<br />
Blurred vision<br />
Facing the future.<br />
Life isn't over,<br />
Though destroyed.<br />
You can hardly stand<br />
But you take a step.<br />
Drag your feet<br />
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I'll read the night and sleep the day</div>
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And so perhaps will pass away</div>
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The time I dread and cannot face:</div>
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Remembering the empty place.</div>
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The calendar returns the day.</div>
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The path we walked is still a way</div>
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I walk alone and see your face.</div>
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But tears and absence took your place.</div>
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Poems, stories, dreams, I waste the day,</div>
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Unconsciousness the only way.</div>
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I hide from and I seek your face</div>
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In memory or out-world place.</div>
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***</div>
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I'm awash and aswim </div>
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in the missing of him</div>
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and the sadness and darkness and pain.</div>
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And the anger rolls on</div>
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and over me on</div>
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to the ends of the worlds that I'm in.</div>
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Hovering however high</div>
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The feathered eye</div>
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Goes seeing by.</div>
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I upturned under-sky</div>
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Pale fac-ed eye</div>
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Crawl hardly seeing by,</div>
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Too tethered to</div>
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The surface soil</div>
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To view with wings askew</div>
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From bold unbounded blue</div>
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As eagles do.</div>
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Blank before God</div>
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I step out of the shower.</div>
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He hasn't spoken to me in years</div>
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Or so much as inclined his ear</div>
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What am I to think?</div>
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But I learned about love as a youngling </div>
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and I remember how to be loved.</div>
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I learned to love as a mother,</div>
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And I know the permanence of love,</div>
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Unwavering in the face of imperfection,</div>
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Diamond and lasting forever.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Maybe in my soul no longer a child</div>
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I do not need what I knew,</div>
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All that was taken away.</div>
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The sign on the door</div>
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COME TELL TOUR TROUBLES</div>
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I stepped into the room</div>
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Was that a shadowy figure </div>
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Or just my expectation?</div>
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Trusting I</div>
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Began to list the woes </div>
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Poured out my heart and told it</div>
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To someone?</div>
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There being no answer</div>
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No nod</div>
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No sympathetic gesture</div>
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I stood to go</div>
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I may return</div>
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Why</div>
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do I think God is in the sky</div>
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any more than in the twigs</div>
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And I walk in the woods</div>
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I seek something above</div>
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and beyond these trees</div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
But it is so dark in me</div>
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Now snow covers soil</div>
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The reaching trees stand here</div>
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I search the high sky</div>
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Looking up</div>
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When I could as well</div>
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lay my fingering</div>
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twigs upon my heart</div>
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and follow down roots</div>
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and delve most deep into the darkness</div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
I come from</div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> </span><u style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Christmas musings</u><br />
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's been a long time since we've had a January</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">but there's one coming soon.</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A long month with a lot of time for nothing,</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">many nothing-filled days.</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With deadlines past,</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">we can sleep 'til noon,</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">warm leftovers when the afternoon darkens,</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">drink tea,</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">light candles alight.</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leave the dishes for tomorrow;</span></div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm busy with nothing tonight.</span></div>
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Does the leaf disrespect?</div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
When it whines to the wind</div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
of the places it's been</div>
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and the troubles it's seen.</div>
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When it sees the world whirling by</div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
out of control,</div>
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in its dry crumbling roll</div>
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and its twisted air-lifted</div>
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expulsion from place.</div>
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When it loses its view</div>
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from the the top of the tree</div>
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down to low as can be,</div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
and beginning to moulder.</div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
Is it ruder and bolder</div>
<div style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
than nicety demands,</div>
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to look at the winds</div>
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that takes out of your hands</div>
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the precious, the needed,</div>
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and say wind I bleed?</div>
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Or is it an honesty</div>
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born of the knowing</div>
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that no one can talk of</div>
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their coming and going.</div>
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<u>Proof of God</u></div>
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The beautiful words</div>
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And the terrible words</div>
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And the pain pain pain.</div>
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The secret thoughts</div>
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And the secret words</div>
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And the deep dark pain.</div>
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The sacrifice</div>
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No one ever sees</div>
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The quiet act</div>
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Done to serve or please</div>
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The inner voice</div>
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And the difficult choice</div>
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And the white hot pain.</div>
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The fading hope</div>
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And the dying dreams</div>
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Of what might have been.</div>
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The broken heart </div>
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And the wasted life</div>
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And the agonizing</div>
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Loss that is death </div>
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And the wish to live</div>
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And the wish to die</div>
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And the pain pain pain.</div>
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