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I AM

I am an emp riness yearning to be filled.
I am a loneliness longing for rest.
I ~~ a restlessness searching for peace.
I am a fear needing security
And a sorrow wanting comfort.

Judy Griep

ETHEREAL RAY

Gloom lies heavily all around, bottoms,
Simulating the thick fall fog in valley

Obscuring hope and dawn.

An ominous foreboding, this _ ---

Of empty mailboxes, wandering dreams,
Backward, foreward and sans di rection

Dispair ...

Is there a tiny breeze? A slight puff
To breathe and caress and convey hope?
Not now or yet ... for a while ...

Waiting. "

Wondering now --- what forces move ---
In far-off places? What whims

Exist? Looking and searching for the eiusive
Love ...

But now --- a breath, a breeze, a card,

A letter, moving the fo g and gloomy mist of day .
.An ethereal ray ... daylight ... mid-morning ...

Joy ...

How long to last, this breeze before
The inevitable calm? So brief, compared
To th e eternality of unfulfill ed expectations.

Ephemerality. "

John Emens

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