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Gateway To Eternity


Don’t give away the best part of yourself

to structure

 

Don’t organize yourself into

spiritual oblivion

 

Keep the magic of the instant

close at hand

 

And the gateway to eternity

 —will remain open and pure

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020) 

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