The Love We Have Forgotten

Photo: Piermont, NY Nov. 25, 2022: looking South

The Love We Have Forgotten

What was it that absorbed me,

That took my heart from me,

That made me flesh and nothing more

So I stopped living

In the service of my truth,

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And instead embraced,

A coarser thing

Less attuned to that divine mark

So gently placed

Upon my forehead

At my birth?

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We all die soon,

Before the…