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Continuation

Upon completion comes fulfillment.
With fulfillment comes liberation.
Liberation allows you to go on.
Even death is not a true ending.
Life is infinite continuation.
  Deng Ming-Dao

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like a lover…

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.
— Ernesto Cardenal in Abide in Love

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Seven Stanzas at Easter

Many thanks to Becky for the contribution.

Seven Stanzas at Easter
By John Updike
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths [...]

Puerto Rican Obituary

By Pedro Pietri

They worked
They were always on time
They were never late
They never spoke back
when they were insulted
They worked
They never took days off
that were not on the calendar
They never went on strike
without permission
They worked
ten days a week
and were only paid for five
They worked
They worked
They worked
and they died
They died broke
They died owing
They died never knowing
what the [...]

Smoke

… how do you carry the weight of history.
Slam Poetry - Smoke by Ken Arkind

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So What

Reading:

So What by Taha Muhammad Ali.

Warning
Lovers of hunting,
and beginners seeking your prey:
Don’t aim your rifles
at my happiness,
which isn’t worth
the price of your bullet
(you’d waste on it).
What seems to you
so nimble and fine,
like a fawn,
and flees
every which way,
like a partridge,
isn’t happiness.
Trust me:
My happiness bears
no relation to happiness.

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