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Recorded Reading (1:19): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oilyudmlhzesot2cf2hb3/Discover-Love-Again.mp3?rlkey=i5srdncl6m92vxm9b7qg3plf1&dl=0

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Discover Love Again

You had a love
It made you happy
But it’s ended — Now you say

That you expected
This betrayal
From a woman anyway

You’re obsessed now
Wondering which
Of you was at fault

Could it be
Simply that
Savor’d lost its salt?

Could it be
No matter how
Hard we try to force

Permanence
In fluid dance
It will pursue its natural course?

If we had
Everyone
We’d ever loved within a room

For lying down
Or even breathing
There would be no room!

Imagine if
Your first bad crush
Were all you’d ever had in life

No precedent,
Experiment ~
Saddled husband or as wife

From your own
Experience
You know that, in a simple word

A life spent yoked
Had been a joke
Considerably sadder than absurd

Now love has come
And then love has
Got up and flown away, well then,

Take what you’ve learned,
The wisdoms earned,
And go discover love again

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