Of Eternal Joy
for Franziska
At the apex of all madness
Star atop the Christmas tree
Sparkles that sweet shining gladness
Of the light you share with me
In the joy of the eternal
Past the mad beyond the sane
The celestial and infernal
Burden blessing boon and bane
Friskaziska Franziskana
How I love your German name
Here post-Pax Americana
We are peaceful just the same
In the midst of sin and sadness
Burns a higher nobler flame
In its everlasting beauty
I find all I need of fame
In our existential duty
To transcend the shit and shame
Of a brutal and barbaric age
With Franziska on a pilgrimage
Of eternal joy though sanity cease
One girl one boy: practitioners of peace
+Steven Curtis Lance
Copyright MMVI
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Regis
Beautiful, shining write; well done!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Susan
Felix
Lin