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Harleen F. Quinzel

I do not seek and do not intend to find
a calmer ocean or a sun that will never rise
my world will never change and time will bring you to my thoughts
and I'll move on and then forget you all over again
moving on, I can forgive you all over again

here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom
even though I may be alone, but that's ok
and looking out onto a different sky it seems so easy
absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade.

This is my future husband.
“ The bone that has no marrow;
What ultimate for that?
It is not fit for table,
For beggar, or for cat.

A bone has obligations,
A being has the same;
A marrowless assembly
Is culpabler than shame.

But how shall finished creatures
A function fresh obtain?—
Old Nicodemus’ phantom
Confronting us again!
”
Emily Dickinson (1830–86), Part One: Life, CXXVII