<div dir="ltr">Great poem. It sounds like me sometimes, maybe all of us<div>when we are each on our" high horse"</div><div>Thanks for writing it,</div><div>Joan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 2:36 PM Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000">IF ANYONE IS THINKING OF ORDERING THE BOOK <b>MAGIC THE CAT ON AMAZON OR BARNES AND NOBLE</b></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000">please wait a week: there are typos and such that stand to be corrected</font></blockquote><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">To the Listeners of the Bright Eyes<span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Thank you for lending me your voice, <span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">thank you for giving me a voice,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">thank you listeners of the radiant faces<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">for offering me your eyes<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">when I get on my high horse<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">and suddenly <span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">the righteous stallion takes me on a wild ride <span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">awakening my pride and rousing my combative spirit,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">that raging self feeding on outrage, <span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">the self that seeks revenge,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">that is always right<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">and never wrong, <span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">the self that will prevail<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">and be knighted for punishing infidels,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">the warrior that will save the world<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">and be acclaimed by all of creation,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">the hero that will sit in Heaven <span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">to the right of the Lord Supreme. . .<span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">but suddenly, I feel your eyes on me<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">my throne crumbles, <span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">I tumble down <span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">and fall,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">flat on my face I fall<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">and a life of lies passes in front of me.<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">I remain on my knees<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">I cannot stand.<span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">‘Where am I, where was I? <span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">You are opening my eyes:<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Wasn’t I working on forgiveness,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">on acceptance and surrender,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">on the infinite love<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">that I am<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">that you are,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">you who have given me<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">this voice, our voice<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">these eyes, our eyes<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">to see<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">the eternal me,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">the limitless you,<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">the perfect being<span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">we all are.<span></span></div>
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