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Matters of the Heart...

Startzman ·

            #184

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They say my heart stops often,

Three seconds more or less.

What if it won't start again?

Will-I just be laid to rest,

Put down into the cold cold ground,

Way too soon for glory bound,

Since my life is such a mess?

                 OMG

Dusting off my wonderful Dante Encyclopedia:

Startzman ·

One of course can't just dust it off without reading the entries.  My wife says I must move it because I don't use it.  I don't use it frequently, but I do love having it close, my Dante Encyclopedia, along with several versions of the poem.  Reading in it got me thinking and the next thing I knew, scratch paper was on the table (at my house scratch paper is called "clutter"!) and pen was in hand (at my house God knows I have way too many pens--10,000 at least--which I couldn't possibly use in a lifetime, so I am told).  In any case, a new entry:

                  #90

           The Empyrean

Oh to bathe in the River of Light,

To secure a vision transcendent,

To see with clarity once in my life

All things with glory resplendent.