so the end has come and gone

as David Blue once aptly put it

we think everything rides

on some life and death choice

and when the moment passes

there we are

where we were

and where we are

and some celestial process grinds on

don't impose any closures

that is not your determination

your role is to see it to your end

and the One determines

from which posture you

continue

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