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After departure’s sadness
After all the pain
It’s incumbent on us
Remember how to smile again
Every moment that we spend
Feeling bad about our loss
Is another moment
Of living gladly lost
If someone whom we treasured but
Were made to leave behind
Is the primary thing we
Find occupying now our mind
Then even though from close connection
We successfully break free
A tyrant still rules over us
Meditatively
We have not yet escaped, we do
Not truly liberated be
Till we again move through this world
Completely happily
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The poet/editor of this website is physically disabled, and lives at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. Contributions may be made at:https://www.gofundme.com/are-you-a-patron-of-the-arts
