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Stillness 2

I knew her from childhood,
But when manhood came, we
Gradually grew far apart.
More correctly, I left her.
But she was always there,
And there for me, whether
Or not I realized it.

Time was our mutual friends,
And it was time that brought us
Back together after many years.
I often grieve to think of the
Many years I ignored her when I was
Enamored with my frantic and busy life.

Stillness first found me some 25 years 
Later and 2000 miles removed from
Where we first met when I was a child.

I knew that it was her when I felt her
Flowing through the valley in the form
Of those California Delta breezes. And she
Was never more inviting and inspiring than
When I more recently experienced her in the
Changing trees of Fall, Crape Mertles of Summer,
and in the Southern open and bare fields of Winter.

021924PS

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