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What Matters | Poem

What Matters
 
and in the twilight of our wonder
will we succumb?
I think not.
Rather we will hope again,
love again,
until
the beginning,
until the breeze blows softly again,
and the simple suggestion of
softness
matters again.

- David Jackson


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