A Sufi Graduation

Letters from the past won’t train

The memories to fell the Tree of Knowledge

So I am strained to remember the fellowship

Of more than I could count on

To talk to My Beloved with remembrance.

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Come and talk to me then Wench!

For it has been too long without the utmost importance.

There and here have I been swayed and moved

To fathom this and that merchant

For a carriage on my breast and smelly balance in my soul.

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It is okay for you to sail on the Ocean of tragedy,

Far from the Tempest of shackled likeminded people

With their trendy shoes and open flower pots –

What would you do? Oh Hand that feeds all:

If they all suddenly turned and looked at you?

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Don’t the mentionable men get in the way first

With their posh offices and the adorned frocks.

Their days meet Your glances first

As you satisfy your Science with the Doctor of Lust.

There are only us left by the middle of the post

When the mourning is derived from who ate brown breaded talked about toast.

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There are those who go nowhere and stay together

And there are those who have somewhere to go

Even though they are alone.

Which one You choose is never so satisfied

As when I am the Asker at the end of the day.

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The Swallow greeted the Ocean during midday

While the narrative was stuck at Elevenses

For the Hobbits to find their way past the awkward time

Of brotherly Love. When will you hear what She has to say

About the nature of Nature to repeat some of the unmanly things?

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Thunder is unnatural when You are against me

I would rather face the size of waves perturbed by Dynasties

That have informed me of your Grace over the Ages

And how little I am now that I am formed.

Who created me? I do not know.

I am unknown now that You have found Me.

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The horses race but there is no victory

Because the causal realm is not decided by tape.

The rapture is empty and the perfume of the showgirl haunts

From the bystander on the Road to Hell

Who cannot find contentment in the arms of too many men.

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The Consciousness of the space hero

Is celebrated as a modern sport and trophy holder

Who can verify my experience without Crown

And has seen The Promised Land without downsizing

Too many people to smaller tasks than their allotted time with The

Maker.


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Errors cannot stop the oncoming onslaught

Time will be timid before the might of dark nights

When there is no time for sunny walks

And handsome weather with friends

And tea in the café with good talks:

For this reason God kept Death alone and talked wisely with Friends.

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University was not meant to be after the Saddhu was rejected

By the end of the world Islam who’s labels were not Nike.

The exams were not reductions

And the students were not so welcome

As harrowing voices from strange Doctors

Hearing of things that they had not focused on before.

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The blessings of a century were not enough

To heal the heart of a hungry devotee.

He had gone mistaken that the world was for charity

When he needed help from the powerful and lived with the poor.

Krishna was found speaking strangely to Radha

About his expectations and rhetoric of open door.

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There was an academic dispute in the Rajahs

Their clouds had been parted and there was commotion.

Indra was counselled and the informers were diseased

From contamination with material nature

To learn more about earth

When en route to Evolutionary heights.

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Now that I am down with the depressing Computer

The days and nights are not felt in the greenery.

Motions are so cold in the machinery

Of my darkened nights with hostile light

That speaks of terror and my removal from The Spirit.

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Some men show and some men tell

The one that I am is within.

That is the shutting out of others who dwell

In the heat of the hearty fire of family and friend

While sacrificing riches for the one Friend at the end.

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In the making of the images of self-success

Is the Dream advertised by the ruined landscape

Repeated broken fragments

Slated coloured tropes

Into the tropes of Consciousness that does not speak of Love,

Until I am felt together with my fellow Seeker.

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The young are not like me any longer;

They do not seek like I did –

Until I am with the holding of The Spirit

Who is majestic and most fearful with my Id,

And the cold hard truth of identity parades

When the Industrialists made me empty value of zero.

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Just because I am lonely

Does not mean the Dowsing is over

For the abdomen of a successful seeker

Who has balanced money with want.

The measurements are small and large

By which my appetite is satisfied:

And the model is not known by which to bring Her home again.

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Passion is not so fiery when the options are removed.

The energy is less than exciting when the chance is gone.

But the reason is energetic because of Love

And the Social Media provides ideas

That change the mood and leave me aloof

From wondering what would have happened alone.

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The past is not poetical when the youth is familial

And the innocence of wanting is linked to The Other

And how the motions of desire could meet Sport,

As well as The Feminine

To express something that in time would flower

To meet different growths and unstrange melodies.

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The fear of the loss of the Mother;

Is there anything so potent about that

When the worldliness is speaking of her Greatness

And the tides of travellers do not talk back

About the changes in time to spread her wings

And make her with The Maker and not my Son?

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Mergers and proclamations of ideas not form

Tender the realms to be inconsiderate to drawings

Of the meanderings of minds to waver wagers on weaklings,

When the strength of tried and tested men

Leans on the old hands of Politicians

Who knew of the New to wait until tomorrow.

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Forgotten are the hopes and aspirations

Towns, cities and their nations

Joinery and mergers, thinking better

About how The One could be possible

For the many to be in pursuit of

Before happening to find too many tomorrows.

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The Love that was sweetest was not beckoned.

It arrived when the shores were least trodden on

And the sands of Time were busy with regret from Explorers

Seeking and finding the tortured remains of days and nights

(In the Land of Knights) where The Beloved held strains

To keep the curtains from falling on their last Play.

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Precious used to be the domain of awareness

Where attunement was gross and causal.

Before the subtlest sinews attested to the frostiest welcome

Of Love from the Source and how it was Consciousness,

So that The Spirit was silent and not proclaimed so wisely.

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We live in an Enlightened Age,

When the Computer pre-empts the legal page

And written on our hearts is the nuisance of the Mind

That can our closest ally touch up and find.

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Words were once lament

And the walks in the woods were something well spent

To balance down the Abyss of Knowledge from Saraswati

Sharing with caring what was not so easy.

Freedom and Love sat beside Death and Hope

Such were the tournaments of Elders to decide.

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Deception so cold that the newest thing is a fright

Where the languishing of Knowledge is up all night.

Some things are adrift on the ocean

Where the moon’s cares are half spent on temporary things,

So that blame is an imbecile’s important gathering

To know the journey of Love.

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Olympus deemed that pigeons and crows were fruitful

In their disposition on the earth to denote meaning.

So They fashioned mankind from the past

To be able to govern himself some more.

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The lakes were cold and tormented by icy edges

Where the land did not recognize the contrast.

It was here the Lady once stood with the sword in her hand

In the imagination of the fallen men

Who had deemed to frighten the Self to fancy all.

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The penmanship of the mighty

Was equal to the task of Time

And the oceans were taken to be far away

By the local man at the end of the day.

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A metaphor upon us is not a direction

The win is composed for the navigator

Of a movement that encompasses the Boddhi Tree

When Jesus was ring fenced by sheep.

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The movement is towards the meeting of ignorance

Education is the battleground of definition.

Time and space hollow the honest man for valour

When the news is pumped out each day

For the mentioning from various classes for organization.

A Sufi’s Awakening

The monsters have abated to oceanic glare

Of too many missions from lost ships

Glacial awareness atop of monuments of love

To find Me and the heathens who said no:

Because all they wanted was some rest

From the throngs afar of love in the wild nights.

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Sentences were felled like trees needed

They were cut down and people were stopped

So that Jai Santoshi Mata was not ephemeral

And majesty was matter while The Mad Hatter

Was astonished while in The Looking Glass

And the modern world knew confidence at last.

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Complements like the Third Way

Tell Me that nuance is not wasted.

The modern world is fragmented

Like a map ridden conquest needing ink

And ending up with lasers

Far from the maddening crowd of intellectual bliss.

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Joy to the masses for the coverings of markets

Free like the Americas to roam away from Islands

And Continents that balance time

On rocky indexes and sharp share points

With couples addressing marriages

For the price of their own Rocks and Diamonds.

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As the music played the Woman watched over the waters

And the people argued who was the best

So she whistled for the fortune men

To blare the differences again.

The elders settled that they were welcome to it

And the masses were cheered to find themselves included.

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Returning from the seas

Mademoiselle found herself empty

The gates needed to be locked behind her

And her own hands were used instead of the guards,

Who had left her unattended for just one night

And time alone to remember friendlier times.

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The lamp remained on

In spite of being alone in the room.

This misery was helped by the balance of woodbeams

Leaving hope that the letter and pen

Would be married to a candle one day

For the contentment of the content speaking of Love.

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Familiarity was not welcome to the Indian:

He was so tense that the modest mood was ire.

Then the Pavilion was offered and some wet condiments

For an afternoon of travailing the London scene

And an actor’s glance at what could have been

Had the ladies written more and the Hats spoken less.

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The sailor was sure

The demonstration had finished

The denizens had become accustomed to the waves

And he saw the Red Dress again

Accompanied by mute eyes warming him to Hindustan

The compass was not telling the evidenced Doctor the same proof.


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The Egyptian was not asked of the Greek

How to play in the forests.

So too the Vedantist was invited by the Babylonian

To invent investigation of Israel

Until the New World had been discovered again

And America admitted Enlightenment

And had come to an End.

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Education was not this way formed

For competition to be known by brothers,

Who then need Vedic injunction beyond Mata’s intervention

#CainandAbel many times over

For The Mind and love from The Buddha

For what cannot be said.


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Ask me a question and Postulate less,

Then address the nation with more than irritated Stress.

Don’t you know these things are for Me?

Has the Age spoken to you better than that?!

Come. Be undone. And let the mirrors accentuate the Newness

Of commercial restraint and too many buyer at the auctions.

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What is the way forward?

The wife of the best dressed men in the market was asked to ask

The asker asked again and the asking was polite:

This was remembered.

The Wise were then found again and sounds were balanced

Like the Dao needing no more than that.

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The traveler was Wise. The roads were quiet.

This way the Fates asked him of passwords

And the horsemen rode on into the future

To open their wide worlds into Stargates

For the Apocalypse to enquire about why

Today would be any different online?…

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The confidence of The Writer was stolen

The Banker had invested in the Medical Complaint

The offering was online and the demonstration was quaint

Of all the words the individual had seen go by.

Time was wiser than that and the payment was made

For Sufism to find the Key to Life again and pay with royalties kingly and queenly sums.

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When rhetoric was balanced by harmonies

The Parliament was motioned to spread Justice.

Then the names were known, again,

And the mirth of the Muses was mixed with feeling –

Grecian and Roman – so that The Vedas could listen

And practice some gaits for a while.

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The woman laughed at the man in the wild:

How he struts his arms in the air and stamps his feet!

Surely he know these words are for me

And that The Imagination was not made for youth.

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Silence was blazen in the fires of the lower realms

As Shamans warmed their glee to find The Friend

And the medic was watched for Schizophrenic attention

Notwithstanding the Schools of Thought near The Academy

Where the great Idea welched on tomorrow and fought

More than an hour of the Great Hand to blame politics.

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Having to fill his time with aloneness

And the repetition of Naam,

The Saddhu went to the Hospital for help

And came back so answered with 0-9.

Why Guru? Why?

Because the good strain time so that I have things to get on with…

…. “Namaste” : Namaste 😊



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What was it the Shaman needed?

What date had he made the Friend late for work?

When was the Shelter denied some traveler?

How could he cut off a loan to the newly released from Jail?

These questions accompanied some Spiritual Guide back home

To watch with Mother as the Doctor made his Tea and broke Bread.


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Sapphires were the lady’s first choice

When the merriment was betwixt Hello and Good Evening

So that the passage of time was sweetened

By being given to more than it was admonishing guilt.

The newcomers were all talk

The windows were open with the tree stalks

Nature stood by and always knew what to do.

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The Guides came by again and did not see the same thing.

There were no Horses on Oxford Street

No singing in the streets when action would bring

Balance for foreigners to trade with whistling

While the ladies streamed on their men’s arms

From the airshow of technology they now had to proof.

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The Islamist entered the country like a Siamese twin

To the Babylonian misinterpretation of Knowledge

And that somehow, he was wanted for more commitments

Then a Trader and Traveler known to the morose Mother

Concerned of her child how he shall eat at the end of the day of Prayer.

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The Sea Horse was brazen before the camera

To tell tales of a life that the child had not seen

So the Scientist ventured forth with his Poetry books

To investigate invention again and panic for the umpteenth time

About work and employment for souls in distress on the Ocean of Samsara.

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Laughter filled the Radio room

The outside world was benedicted with Silence.

This was the passage of Time before Comedy

When the Royal world would be intruded on

And the fair farmer would say fields worth of thanks.

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In the old age, same as the wry times

In the young age, different to the dry times

Then when were the tears to come of loss

And shadows of Commerce spent in wasted regret?

This was the passage of growth for the old women

To loose their dependence on men some more.

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The watch was handed over to the Gatekeeper

And he twiddled the Rocker with his bony fingers:

Was this the ‘Could Be’ moment of the Aeons

When man had discovered the perfect balancing machine –

Or was Eve to find herself regretting her role on Earth

And how Jehovah was made up to follow here down Hell’s path.

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The mystic did not know

The Time did not tell him

There was no capital strain

And the markets were dull again…

Fellow man had not been kind to his needs

They were not met until help arrived from foreign shores.

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The brother was unforgiving

His hold on the world was The Real –

He offered a chance for Enlightenment

Down the alley of The Medic who frazzled hairs with wires

And spied on mirth with angry assistants against Unity.

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Shopping was not admitted in Athenia

It was bare dressed for the Yogic absence of thought

Far from the horseplay of carriages and cloaks.

Rulings were made so that passion was displayed

Humble and restrained before Zeus to contour Time.

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Weather told the Shaman that he was accompanied

But He could not cope.

Those Angels needed some distance

For the road ahead was longer than Time

And The Flood was not yet upon the Earth

For the Sins untold that He had endured because of Medicine

Today and yesterday trying to heal the Healed.

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Racial slurs were all he had one faded day

To return overconfidence and his ruined hand

At the Poker Tables with Death

And some unstable O.T. comeuppance to be better than The Other(s).

So Science was awarded control of the language

While the Ghosts stood still, stared and laughed.

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The Healer was asked what time she was Love?

Then the Medicine was not working when she worried by racial times.

This way the Shaman was moved to the new language

Of another Doctor who complemented her fashion

And knew her address.

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Film Stars were adrift on the Ocean of Time

High in the School of Thought of localized consciousness

When the Great Storm broke out and glazed when looking

How adroit their position was to The Mind.

Buddha –

Then there was Confucian organization.

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In the retirement was not betterment

The Fates did not win the lottery

And the Ghosts did not leave town.

Stress and petty distress continued

And the children were no good for The Mother without God

Now that all the illusions were illustrations in The New Age.

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Then they sent for the Chinese to mediate commotion

And the fields told of the cities where they spoke well

Without the Burberrys of well to do men

Loafing with the Commoner about farming

And the debt to rhetoric owed by Jesuits

Seeking and finding the Tax on the Land.

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Through the loneliness of Thought

The seeker knew Naam

And was adrift on metaphors and similes

Until he came to his senses

And found the Love of The Lord!

Was no longer blessed in the 21st century.

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Spirit was moved beyond Form

Dao was addressing Formlessness

God was empowered to use Mirrors

Angels held the balance of Time:

Man was returned to thought after 2012

And The Mayans had seen where they had been.

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Islam had been back to the court of popular appeal

To fine Satan for messaging the clues

To laundered cleanliness about how to escape conviction

For Time and Human Rebirth

If the name did not fit the right time of Fallen Soul.

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The Bhajan played on and the Community organized

So that new things could be heard and some old friends

Could know The Friend : Allah and some Godly remains

Of a language before The Computer spoke

Of feelings for a phone smarter than man

And contraptions needed to extract information with Revenge.


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Guidance was not enough to convince Hollywood

Acting was too much amongst the Heavenly Realms

Dancing had stretched Bollywood too many miles

To return with Kindness the Writer’s debt to Gratitude

For the hours spent inactive and too close to Madness

For Comfort to be shared with Rich Society.

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When did He alienate?

Before the two friends were contrived repetition

As Adam and Eve overcome with grief

In despondent Wars in Heaven

For games they did not play.

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The long Light was shortened by the need for a shotgun

As the infirmary spoke without words of its structure

To anticipate any argument

And be the best rationalizer : Clairvoyant and Seeker.

They are all here, at the best, in the Hospital chosen by Gods and Goddesses.

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Is the perfect story Conflict?

And this is the Writer’s aloneness

To balance temerity with timid times lost to the world

When he is sometimes populated by his Imagination

And The Self with many selves sieving Time

For the odd hand with chance to know success, sex and some fame?

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Downwards spirals the contrition of the Realiser.

He is the one who is the many after he is one again.

His hand had typed what yesterday was written –

And tomorrow was his yesterday he could have taken back, to be one again

Awhile with many who want to know who they are,

When he has forgotten the School, the Playground and Parking Lot

To Work no more with fellows and felines

And yet to get from them attractive things for the dishonesty He still prays (pays?…) for.

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Leave it alone.

It is called Social Media and must travel Oceans.

There in the night it is on the waves

And this is the wavelength of You and I.

Trust in this tryst as time goes by

And India will forget Her destiny in years to come,

Travelling friend sailing by, one more time…

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Stop awhile and find out from Time instead of Sports

Why is the Writer’s body weak?

What is it he is asking for?

Where is there water on that farther shore?

For all the medication you provide,

To stop him to ask?


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The road is ignored as the wild Writer falls in love at sea

And the paving is abridged to muddy grass and stones

He is unattractive with identity

He is lonely with belly fat

He is unwanted with ADHD

This is the reason he flees abroad.

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How much did the Dr want to know

From all the books that had been written

Before The Writer had come to task

And not page numbered the exact counter claim

For the person the Dr knew was suffering.

The balance of Justice spoke of More and Less

And Time was witness to more Injustice again.

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The heart renders what the hand can hold.

That is why The Maker compliments dust,

If it is well used The Poet will be power

And the Time shall pass with flowering of formation.

Creation will be in the room awhile

And some words are needed to describe time.

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The woman wanted to ask of the Writer one thing:

How is it you know the words to the wanton Lust I am not solving?

Time and the right medicine from the wrong people

The Will of the small Hand that makes some things possible

Including my own demise.