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Sizable Gratitude for Small

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That’s it

I guess

I have something to share

Maybe kind of usual

For trope

If not cliché

I even mention weather

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Well

I’m sipping

And I feel kind of easy

I know God is here

And maybe

My near angel

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The hall is quiet

For a change

Our small humanity

Easy

Too

Or absent

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I’m breathing easier

Might be the new

Medication

Or-and

The added rest

I got this morning

After waking up

The first time

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I don’t know

I’m drinking water

When I cough

I hope that’s smart enough

Because I want

To feel grateful

For the smallest

Better changes

In this day

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And

Yes

I know

This is not the day

That others have the day

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Wounded by so many

Things that wound

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There’s even terror

Too much

In too many places

Great

Or small

Letting the first page show

The way

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For our remembrance

Supplication

Specific

Book-driven

Petitioning

To love our neighbors

And ourselves

When either needs a dire prayer

For safety

And for healing

For reckoning

Still decency

Still

In the world

Great or

In spite of intimate abdications

The smaller things we lose

In wider things

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As some have tried

Aberrantly

To move the world

Another way

In spite of natural paths

Natural gains and losses

We must expect

Along the way

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Pray for the world

Frankly

Lord

That we snap-to like soldiers

Even minutely

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Only immediately

Waking up

To start to change

The errors

In certain plans

To raise up

And take care of

Real need instead

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