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inspire
pause
expire
pause
respire
pause is neither
neither receiving, gobbling
neither letting, spewing
nor starting all over
nor nothing at all
nor something
nor between
pause is death
pause is not life
pause is not before
before new life
before respire
before is no promise
one day
nothing will follow
pause will stay forever
you will be food for new
life
pause now
you are able
in this conversation
to be food for new
life
you did not know
you were pregnant until

:- Doug.

Not a simple dance revealing conversation to us, life-death-life cycling reveals itself to us. Its conversing, like the beat within our rib-cage, is seldom noticed. Like the angel walking behind us, coming nearer by inches. We feel it does not mean us good—but it does.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2321

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