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Once I wrote about manatees and of
Dugongs out on the water in love
Now dry in the desert how I must be
Nearer stars fading here find me trading
Manatees for the more essential
Verities of the existential
Nor writing of the inconsequential
Henceforth of no consequence to me
Although I always love a manatee
Manatees are always consequential
Dugongs dapper self-referential
Anthropomorphic and deferential
Farther stars clearer as in a mirror
Now out here in the desert I write
About things like life and death all night
But maybe some manatees come what may
Dugongs doubtless come some other day
Let the settling dust understand the sand
Trading the fading for the crusading
Let me see now to be about how
Insofar as I may understand
Farther here somehow than fear would allow
Let me arise like the Phoenix now
Under desert sky to wonder by star
Stars in the mirror farther but clearer
Any of the many ones we are
Farther the who of me and you too
When it feels good then to be understood
Out in the desert here not too far
For those who chose to be consequential
Falling but rising being surprising
When having nothing but getting back
Up lacking nothing then having the knack
Each manatee and every dugong knows
That the ones who rose are those who chose
Out on the water or out here like me
Never out of fashion never in
Out here without fear who chose beginning
Again without end falling but rising
How one who lost once now twice winning
Rose too and chose to become essential
Falling like me those who rose once again
+Steven Curtis Lance
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Love ya!
Jane Elin