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Our lives are like a beautiful cloak
richly embroidered with gold thread and jewels
Unique in it's texture and presence
twirling around sending reflections of glory to all we know
Aren't we magnificent and grand

Along comes a hurt and then another and then another
they land and splash like mud
until all the beauties of our lives
are covered up with pain
and we don't like ourselves anymore

We should know we are still beautiful beings
even though we are hurting
healing is like washing the mud away
revealing our original magnificence
that never changed

just our perception did
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Capitano Avatar
May 18, 2016 at 9:17 AM
Deep, my brother, very deep...and true.
Knapp Avatar
May 22, 2016 at 9:54 AM
Thanks Phil, I found the reply button.
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