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Gratefulness
Tell me, what would you do today if you knew your life to be a celebration of this world?
Would you stop to gather sunlight dropping soundlessly upon pines beyond your window pane?
Would you court dreams too wide for the container of consciousness?
Would you linger in the terrible beauty of uncertainty as if the fullness of the world depended upon your presence?
Would you cast your hopes upon possibilities that abide only in departure?
Would you become the motion of your song, losing itself in overtones of delight or despair and returning, finally, to the stillness from which it all began?
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