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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Everybody Shift

Things as they are

bear no resemblance

to things as they were.

Every day a change.

Every moment something new

(from this whine, that fatigue,

those other bleak thoughts

to

I can do this, I remember,

I can, I will, I want to).

 

And in a twinkling

(perhaps too cheerful a word here)

in a shadowed shift

it can (it will) all change

as one remembers

this sad moment or that piece of joy

and the new thought colours all.

 

The essence is this

(I don't believe I'm the first to say it):

neither cling to the lighter moments

nor shun the shadows

because neither situation is permanent.

The flow is the whole point.

 

 
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