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Diabetes tells us we’re machines,
Intended to exist but for a time.
All that brought us pleasure in our prime
Breaks down to prove the metal of our means.
Eventually, all of us must die,
Though, perhaps, not quite so bit-by-bit.
Each soul must see of life the whole of it,
So as to know of death …

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Death came to me while I was at a meeting,
Opened up my chest and wandered in.
Nor did it leave until a few days later,
Satisfied it need not come again.
It was a death both unforeseen and fitting,
Living as I did for what I did,
Being one averse to merely being,
Engaged in service …

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Darkness is the glowing field of light,
As though in meadows filled with wildflowers,
Vast and lovely in the midnight hours,
Each blossom bloomed throughout the winter night.
Know there is no sense without delight.
Although perception lie beyond our powers,
The choice of happiness is always ours.
However dark and passionate our plight,
Yet love remains our …

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Do you think that this is just your business?
Really, do you think you’re on your own?
Understand, when you’re a little reckless,
No risk you take can be your risk alone.
Know that when you drive a little tipsy,
Daring death to make it home by three,
Rock-solid on the wheel, a little dizzy,
In control, …

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Stepfathers of grown children find the grace
To love beneath a banner of their own.
Each is more than friend, though not by blood;
Parent, yet not part of childhood;
Father, yes, in truth, but not in stone.
Arms open ever to our long embrace,
They give to us what’s theirs to give alone:
Hearts unhindered by …

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Sweet Sixteens are harbingers of grace,
Intimations of a childhood’s end,
Xxx’s on the envelope of time.
This invitation I to you extend,
Easy in the rush of time and place,
Expecting in the moment’s silver chime
No more than just a glimpse of life to come.

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Sorrow may the heart sometimes deface
In ways that will in time its seal emboss.
Do remember, then, love’s gentle grace
So that the gift be ransom for the loss.

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Sometimes people grow together slowly,
As trees reach across an old stone wall,
Entangling roots and crossing slender branches
Till one can barely tell which comes from which.
You’ve become part of my life slowly,
As music, often played, lives in the heart,
Shaping its surroundings to its beauty,
Mirroring the sanctum of its source.
I’ve come to …

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Some might think, perhaps, that I’m not pleased
At how you’ve trivialized my name and day.
In fact, I think romantic love’s one way
New recruits for paradise are seized.
True, the object is the kind that’s squeezed.
Very well! We’re flesh, and though we may
Awaken first to lust, at last love’s play
Leads us to …