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search out the calm in your heart,
and dwell in that placid lake,
glancing up from the soft
velvet green tundra,
into the serene cerulean sky...
as trouble-clouds float by -
and you remain -- sustained,
unscathed
by the dissonance
of distant thunder;
as it echoes --
harmlessly,
off your protective shield
of separation;
you -- far removed from
fierce lightning strikes
of trepidation.

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