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SUNDAY PRAYER, cxliv
time & time again,
i could move. to be near you
as year by year my mirror shrinks
both sides of my divided mind
move a little more to center
like a melody into tonic enters
rest, and is met with cheers
the music must face the quiet
that it fears.
time & time again
we hurricane proof the palm trees
in the same way every season
in the warm florida winter breeze, and
i am the same as i have always been, and
you are the same as you have always been
an old man is a young man in an old man's skin
same as it has always been.
i am i am
but you're a birthday
deep with the dayshine
from dusk to moonbreak
the dust of keepsakes
time & time again, i am i am
das - lutz, florida, u.s.a.