the nearest heart

Are you lost today? Floating on a blue sea

Drifting to the edge of sky and water

Lost among familiar sounds all out of place

amid faces that peek through  a haze-

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But you are never lost, nor far away

You’ve made the world a smaller space

grown over with a bed of warmth

As I whisper a prayer,  a whimper fills

The following breath and it is as if air

Carries the weight of these moments too

When you see the nearest heart from a distance

Apart from touch, a space always just beyond

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You feel lost but know, you have been found

in the warm, rising air lifted by love and prayers

and the world that knew you so well

waits and stores its other treasures until you

return from this troubled slumber

and awaken into the dream of life

you have gifted to all you have touched

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