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A Letter to Start Things Off


by Darryl Price


I don't know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love--George Harrison

We're the masters of our own fate
The painter and the paint--Robbie Williams

I may be just a grain on 
the sand, but live seeds from the 
once forever stars glow in
my river of atoms and 

yours, too. I smile at you because
you are loved. Because I
know we are never going
to be perfect. Don't push said 

river if you mean to pull 
on its tail, don't pull what you
mean to push. Don't let the light 
go out. I only want my

own beautiful noise to add 
to the world's own tide making 
sound. Don't snuff it out when 
you desperately need to
 
lighten it up. (A light turned 
down is not a light turned off.) 
I laugh with you because it
is funny and you're still loved.
 
It's not just your light, but all 
the lights that light the world that 
we are trying to protect. 
I weep with you because your 

own hurt, wherever, whatever 
and whenever it is,  
can be found deep inside my 
own heart's beats like the club band.
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