<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="2" class="">I pray that the poetry we share might help us find our way into the light of ending, completion and discovery.</font><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">David</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">(with special gratitude to Nelson, Elaine, Lynda and John)</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><font size="2" class="">FLY AWAY, FLY AWAY, FLY AWAY HOME<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></b></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">With neither will to linger nor heart for flight, </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">your eyes betray the time of tears.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Not even the Maker of the universe can save you,</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">when you cling so steadfastly to life.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Can you see within the darkness</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">the wonder beyond heaven,</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">or are you still too body-bound </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">to look beneath the surface for the light? </font></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">My heart breaks every time you stumble</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">on your lonely, rock-strewn path.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Why do wings come so late</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">when all is ruined and smashed to dust?</font></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Pray do not fall into despair, dear friend;</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">the dark brown earth can not hold you.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Go deep inside yourself to find the path</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">that leads beyond the mind’s horizon.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">When you have finished life upon the earth</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">trust the venture of departing.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Silence calls you to begin the ending</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">that is the labor of your final birth.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Eternity will only happen when death turns into light.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">So run, deny the tyranny of life;</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">rise above the fury of the flesh.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">The One who made the worlds revolve receives you.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Return to the promise before you were conceived.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Take heart in the blessing of our sorrow.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Go in peace, the time of tears is ended.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Watch over all the weary souls who follow.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Fly away, fly away, fly away home.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">< 11-08-19</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">for Terry Wright</font></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><span><img apple-inline="yes" id="E8EBC015-2A2A-4D4E-A89A-54E71BC5BFB2" src="cid:DAA4528C-742B-4D13-A6E0-FCF91959BC47" class=""></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"><span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">"Mystery, possibility, and the power to choose"</span></span></span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">David Dunn</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">740 S Alton Way 9B</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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