Wednesday, May. 04, 2011 - 5:53 p.m.
Thank You For the Day
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we are all capable
of all feelings
the beauty is
that there is generally
at any given moment
somebody to hold
one of them up
either noble or rotten
none are lost to time
somewhere in the world
at any given moment
horror is being coaxed
to new heights
truth is being honoured
to new depths
fear is being irrigated
by a million tears
trust is being poured like
hot bessimer steel
regret is repeating itself
again and again
wonder is taking hold
never to let go
appreciation is expanding joy
doubt is rusting ambition
God Bless anyone
who chooses to hold open
the tentflaps of the good feelings
and does not rush
to let rotton bad or dangerous feelings
go any farther
most people manage
to pass through life
having nothing to do with evil
nor give any quarter to stupidness
who marry and raise up children
in a closed loop climate of decency
and release them into the world
to quietly fight for the light forever
This sounds corny
but there are many such
households in Niagara where I live
where rotten weirdness
has never been
where there is no selfish motive
where the day to day concept
of anything less than
fair or correct never comes up
where motives & actions otherwise
seem like the fiction they actually are
I can see that
there is much more
invisible virtue in the world
than visible corruption
there are salts of the earth
and they are not always
spread on road in winter
to melt the ice
