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| Hear it if you can |
Easy to be down just now these brief days
so I listen to the sea because I can
I have the will to call it up to remember
the past so huge the good the bad
I choose the good and hear the sea
breaking breaking on a flawless beach
at the edge of a continent on the Earth
in the Solar System near the center
of the Milky Way in an endless universe
I have the will I can
It's true loss the human story
each of us our tragedies
everything we love we lose
once I thought my pain unique
childhood terrors a father's cruelty
the splattered wall the bloody sheets
replaced too soon my daughter's lightness
as I held her wasting frame my awakening
in her room to abject silence
I've come to know no one escapes
There's no forgetting and so
I make a choice because I can
to hear the sea I tell myself buck up
who needs another chance to keen
when I can hear the surf at will and find
comfort in the waves and in this fire and wood to burn
and joy in strength my legs with woods to walk
comfort in the texts of friends joy in family
eyes to see a head to understand a heart to know
I'm not alone comfort and joy goddammit comfort and joy.
