Castle keep

No need to despair,

no need for fear

when the bourgeois world

outside you rings false, turns false

yet again:  instead, turn to the truth

living inside you.  Resolve to protect it,

to cultivate it; it's the most precious blossom,

it's the truest star in the heavens

shining on w/in  you, inside your

mind and inside your heart.
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