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Love is here
and now and here and now
refugees with unreasonable courage say it
a few unbound from pain's consensus speak it
brave fugitives of convention call it clear
and all with nothing left to lose cry it
with their dissolution's liberating tears
there is as much Love as there is hate
fear greed apathy hypocrisy cynicism doubt
yes there are surely those
but there is as much Love as there is
everything else there is
and more

the door opens inward
the door opens outward too
why are we my inner selves
still stifling each other
in this collapsing anteroom
redressing wounds
retelling disaster's epic
repeating news of chaos looting scarcity
when just beyond are all the healers
all the medicine
and all the us
that we could need for regeneration?

we acquiesced for far too long
all my survivors to all of theirs
let confidence in distrust take the day
grafted their unmended pain to mine
and helped to hold the door against the Light
but even through the closure it illumines
reaching radiating irresistible
and even barely moving I can
feel a way forward by the incandescence igniting
all around the edges