These Footprints We Leave Behind/last line

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Nisargadatta , " Anna Ruiz 2 " <kailashana

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> We have been Lovers far too long,

> We are so close there is no room

> And now this empty room is closing in...

> We are smoke-coloured birds, silent, long-legged

> As large as life, somehow we have learned flight

> Somehow we have found one another,

> And somehow it is perfect and right.

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> This passion of our dark flowers speak our names,

> As they open,

> As they open,

> As they must open,

> Blossoming in the sound of our divine madness,

> Of mystics and fools

> Of poems and poets,

> Or Jesus and Magdalene

> Having trudged along a narrow and sacred forest Path

> We stand on the edge of a narrow precipice,

> A cold wind blows through us.

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> I am quite ready to fall,

> Just so

> Just because

> This awe and grace can bind me

> Once again

> To my own echo, my longing,

> My ache of too much tenderness,

> Enduring a sweeter agony,

> To feel what being Human is,

> Adoring You,

> I am both cursed and blessed in what

> I have come to know as

> Your only gift...

> An uncut jewel,

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> My Solitary life

Is tearing me asunder.

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> Ana

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> 7/18/06

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