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Recorded Reading (1:09): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xf0axsqb71vod2y1zfqx6/More-Than-Earthly-Loss.mp3?rlkey=kxnjc43y28sqsegqgpobn8vpf&st=n144hn3f&dl=0

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More Than Earthly Loss

How glad I am that I have never
Had anything much to lose
Nothing much to hold me back
When it came time to choose

Between the hesitation
Which would have preserved
Something I had worked for,
Imagined I “deserved”

Something I could not give up
Something thought the cost
Against what I was living up
Not “much of a loss”

Now I know there is no creature
More deserving than another
Not a single passing soul
Who is not my equal brother

If I have been blessed
To find my way amid the storm
That is not because
Some “errant” way I made reform

To tell it fully accurately
Much more it hath been because
I feared a moral bankruptcy
More than any earthly loss

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