<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">In wonder and awe, Thank you  <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 10:34 PM David Dunn via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="2">I pray that the poetry we share might help us find our way into the light of ending, completion and discovery.</font><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">David</font></div><div><font size="2">(with special gratitude to Nelson, Elaine, Lynda and John)</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b><font size="2">FLY AWAY, FLY AWAY, FLY AWAY HOME<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span></font></b></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"> <br></font></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">With neither will to linger nor heart for flight, </font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">your eyes betray the time of tears.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Not even the Maker of the universe can save you,</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">when you cling so steadfastly to life.</font></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"> <br></font></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Can you see within the darkness</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">the wonder beyond heaven,</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">or are you still too body-bound </font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">to look beneath the surface for the light? </font></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"> <br></font></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">My heart breaks every time you stumble</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">on your lonely, rock-strewn path.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Why do wings come so late</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">when all is ruined and smashed to dust?</font></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"> <br></font></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Pray do not fall into despair, dear friend;</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">the dark brown earth can not hold you.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Go deep inside yourself to find the path</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">that leads beyond the mind’s horizon.</font></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"> <br></font></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">When you have finished life upon the earth</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">trust the venture of departing.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Silence calls you to begin the ending</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">that is the labor of your final birth.</font></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"> <br></font></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Eternity will only happen when death turns into light.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">So run, deny the tyranny of life;</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">rise above the fury of the flesh.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">The One who made the worlds revolve receives you.</font></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"> <br></font></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Return to the promise before you were conceived.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Take heart in the blessing of our sorrow.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Go in peace, the time of tears is ended.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Watch over all the weary souls who follow.</font></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"> <br></font></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Fly away, fly away, fly away home.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">< 11-08-19</font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2">for Terry Wright</font></div></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><div>
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