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“Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” ~ Matthew 24:40-41

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Recorded Reading (2:18): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p26303u13y09bx3vgb8or/There-Will-Be-a-Separation.mp3?rlkey=zpgyxjlofwd155088lx633i6t&dl=0

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There Will Be a Separation

There will be a separation
Some of us, remaining blind
To Light’s bright’ning invocation,
Will be left behind

There will be a separation
As one cell becoming two
One dedicate to descending
Power-over hells into

Those will know the iron footstep
Of those grimly in command
Continue all their energy
And every happiness demand

Will undergo such scrutiny
In all their daily lives
As in naught but most mundane
Routine convention there survives

Presented with a sorry
Limited facsimile
Of real life in this act’ual world
As it was meant to be,

While to another level
Of cosmic frequency
Those with it who will depart
Dim memories will come to be

For, though right beside them,
They’ll neither see nor hear
Blocked even more than they’re blocked now
By their own servile fear

I will not life to these describe
That new dimension on
Better they think it less than good
Wherever they are gone

For fear and limitation
And bending of the knee
Unto whatever temporal
Power’s for them what will be

Until perceive that thereby it
Hath got the upper hand
That safely unreasonable
Concessions may demand

And so it will, and make them jump
And make them scurry too —
This entertainment be to such a
Primitive point of view

There will be a separation:
They would truly rather miss
Those who then seem far away
Than know that Here Now is our bliss

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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