When Joy Learns Bliss

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12.0pt">I fly upside down now,

12.0pt">Blue skies drink deep rich wines of myself

12.0pt">Ambrosia in cut crystal

12.0pt">Absentia has a purpling taste, when red and blue

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12.0pt">I called myself Peter then, dared not to be

12.0pt">Crucified like Christ,

12.0pt">Just yesterday I wept:

“I can’t do this myself,

12.0pt">Oh, Lord.” And my soul

12.0pt">Spoke to me: “Joy is human

and eventful,

12.0pt">Knows inherent sorrow.

12.0pt">Seek not joy”.

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12.0pt">I remembered a chance meeting the day before,

12.0pt">A friendly face spoke to me in polite

12.0pt">Conversation exchanging the day after the New Year

12.0pt">And what we were doing that day.

He was fixing

12.0pt">His father’s plumbing in Parma, I answered yes and no

12.0pt">I am working this day. He

wished me well: “May 2006

12.0pt">Be peaceful for you.” “And

for you as well.”

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12.0pt">I don’t ask for Joy when I know Bliss,

12.0pt">The Second Coming of Christ,

12.0pt">I now know Peace is all there Is.

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12.0pt">Love You All,

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12.0pt">Ana

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