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Recorded Reading (1:30): https://www.dropbox.com/s/5m7igdrhu83z5v4/Well%20Pleased.mp3?dl=0

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Well Pleased

Of course I know what Jesus Christ
Felt on the cross — so do we all
After all the pain and the
Humiliation of his fall

When his eyes went heavenward
His soul sank to his feet
Feeling he had gone down to
The ultimate defeat

“I’ve failed,” he asked his Father
“I have failed, isn’t that so?
— And humankind in ignorance
Continue will to go

For thousands more of years
Stretching forward from the now
I’ve failed, I’ve failed to show them
At all adequately how

Grow up to adults
May one and all spirit’ually
Requiring only loving truth
Keep clearly in our memory…”

We all have felt like failures
We all have felt the dud
We all have had our good names
Dragged through the stinking mud

We’ve all said to ourselves
It doesn’t matter if we live
Since we no worth unto the world
Worthy seem, ourselves, to give —

When, somewhere past the ceiling
Somewhere past the eaves
We hear a still voice whispering:
“…with whom I am well pleased.”

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Until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ and to begin once again to create professional connections and to rebuild her life, this poet presently lives homeless and at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level ~ still working seven days a week to contribute to her society, however.

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