<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">The Gift of Forever.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">Oh no! </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">I missed it all!</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">I just arrived as it was finishing.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">I missed everything!</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">Does one ever miss anything, I ask,</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">when a hiatus offers an in-between time,</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">a temporary break in continuity,</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">an interruption in unremitting activities, </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">a timeless time when nothing happens</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">and everything takes place?</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">I once wished for a word</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">that would put reverence into dread, </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">illumination into obscurity,</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">courage into fear,</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">a word that would mean hate and love</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">all at once,</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">a word of angelic evilness.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">As I sit by the ocean I see that word </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">dancing with the branches of that faraway tree</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">as me </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">in You,</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">a shimmering word </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">whispering with the light on the water</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">as You </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">in me</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">a word with a tenderness for al things</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">revealing the music </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">of my inner silence.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">I drink that word as I dissolve</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">in the place where the immensity of sky</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">meets the infinite ocean,</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">and when I reach that everlasting shore</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">all shapes dissipate </font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">and are reformed as The Word</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">wrapped as the gift of the Forever</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 16px; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 14pt;">right Now.</font></font></p></body></html>