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I invited Purpose for a walk
And asked of it
To lay bare to me
The fecundity of it essence
That my soul may quiver
With the knowing
Of homecoming
In thunderous silence
Before a tree
Purpose stopped
And asked of me
“Do you see just tree?”

Tell me please
To whom
May I whisper
To what
May I entrust
To whence
May I unload
This tale
I have carried
Since time began
Insistently alive
Its silence deafening

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Love is such an unknowable
Each season of life
Experiencing it anew
Limits of human imagination
Be the only filter
Impoverishing Love's infinite hue

Embroidered into the melody of laughter
Be traces of sorrow indescribable
Paradox thus the only bridge
Permitting the longing
A glimpse into eternity
Yet even then

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Most folks can do one hard thing
Once
Twice
Maybe thrice
But to keep coming back
To this hard thing
Till it ain't hard no more
Till you ain't the same you no more
Now, that's where magic begins

I can't recall precisely whence it all happened
For it seems that one day I awoke
To find in the mirror
Someone I faintly recognise
When last night I fell asleep
A twenty-six year old
Who believed still
That the world
Was yet mine to conquer