and so the daily earthly toil

sustains our spirits after all


gives us the strength

to rise in the morning


then fall exhausted at night


and what portals of the fantastic

open in our gathered sleep


to renew the field of our living

there the grief we give each other


hammers home the illumination

that the shoe pinches and the heart bleeds


but the fleeting instant of timelessness

renews what joys and peace empower


the next 5 pm homeward crawl....









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