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Writing Lesson

It’s not anger but passion.
Learn the difference –
listen to the smallest shift in tone
if you wish to speak with love.
The word withholds the strength
which breathes inside our lives;
to hear its smallest whisper
listen closest to your soul.
Each rhythmic heart’s pulse
holds the difference of yes and no;
the border between the both
is the salvation of us all.

(June 30, 2014)