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I love contradictions;

I live contradictions,

here’s one:

this might be our last meeting:

but it is not!

 

We might never assemble right here -

seated around this table -

but we will meet again:

in the street, in a supermarket;

it might be I remember

a fragment of conversation

(no, my sentences never end)

that evokes an emotion,

and I will recall these evenings,

and say “thank you” to you all.

 

From the angry, empty man,

who came to his first session here,

I have been able to experience

love and acceptance;

and apply it in my own life,

thank you.

 

Should we meet in a supermarket,

and you don’t know what to say,

you could try,

“the heart doesn’t have to retreat; does it, Les?”

which would be akin to saying,

“by celebrating life, we acknowledge death;

in acknowledging death, we celebrate life”;

OR

“do you know where the peanut butter is?”

(I might be able to help you.)

 

Les Bush

2011

 

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