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Yesterday, I sat down
and said good-bye
without a tear
without a word
like dust and bones
and a well run dry.
Sat down again later
to make my peace
but the words were transplanted
so I was forced to listen
while you corrected me,
laid out the next stretch of road,
and put the barricades up behind me.
This flood is over,
and so is this apprenticeship
for all practical purposes.
I can see ahead as much as is allowed,
and know that I can't just float
into another dusky fall,
under a blanket of snow,
or only just observe
the birthing of a new year.
After that I don't know;
it was not given to me,
except that I will not sit and wait.
This is the time to quit
thinking so much
and start on repairs
and new construction.
When I stood up again,
I stamped my dirty inky bare foot
onto a new book of days.

PamEhli/this one is so universal i'm not gonna date it.


Since 1-20-03



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