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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thank you Toni. She is wonderful. Looking forward to read more of her.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Viktoria </div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, December 23, 2024 at 02:34:15 PM PST, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">This, too, is what we are born for,</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">this waking in darkness, unable</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">to see, but still able to hear the shush</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">of wind in bare branches, able to feel</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">the charge of our heartbeat, the swell</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">of our belly as it fills with borrowed air.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">I have spent my life learning to love</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">these shapeless hours before the light</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">finds us, these shadowsome nights when</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">my whole being seems to stretch beyond</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">the bed, beyond the room, beyond the home,</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">beyond the valley, beyond even the globe,</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">as if I rhyme with the dark all around us,</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">the dark that holds us, the dark that surrounds</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">this whole swirling spiral of galaxy.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">Sometimes, I feel how that infinite darkness</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">calls to the darkness inside me as if to say,</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">remember, remember where you come from,</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">remember what you are. And the darkness</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(9, 9, 10);">inside me sings back.</p>
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