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To run, leap and spring about

in the fields of reminiscences

To break away from present sorrows

To feel the feelings a bit too much

To touch a dazzling hibiscus

and cringe with epiphany

To rise, twirl and flutter high

To balance within rivers of blessed dark

but glow in the moment’s spark

To sit still while thoughts wander

into the valley of unthinkable tangle

To celebrate mourning amid azure heavens

To live and to die and to die and live,

Altogether

To stumble upon a newfound path

beckoning to your soul’s heart

To forget frugal fears

To weep a million pasts and plunge

into sacred memoirs of times to come

To burn, to ache, to drown

In the oceans of brutal holocaust

To give up, give in all lamentations

Reasons, seasons, treason

are all timely lesions

To cry the last cry

To live the last death

To be torn asunder; fury and regret

No more let past define you

No more let pain devour you

To aim for the dawning horizon

Embracing your thoughts, wizened

Gradually, hopefully

To enter the lane of recovery

Heavens, bless the recovery!

Published in Daily Times, July 4^th 2018.