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2/25/2013

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Words about the endurance of your support cannot meet you 
Words like birds flutter around a sturdy tower
Your cause has never held my consequence
You have never held me back

Oakwood cherry wood brass and marble
Leather seats of warm love comfort me
Reinforce and let me be
As a boy
I never saw you cry
I never sensed your question marks
And now that as a man I can intuit them
My gratitude and admiration 
Grow deeper roots
Bear sweeter fruit

We didn’t meet
We didn’t need to
I have always been in you
And in me parts of you shine through
Our distance is nearer
Our proximity clearer
And the bond of love remains unshaken
God bless the years you have forsaken
In silent worries over me
God bless you and awaken 
Endless thanks in me
 
Jason Sparkes © 2002


 
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