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A-Maze

As a maze is to the eye, I am to all. Winding and wearing, my walls impossibly tall. Here, turns are the

Words

and dead ends the Actions. Spirals are the days, and red herrings, my                                                                                                                   Attractions.                                                                                                                                      With each

                                                                                                                 Who dare

                                                                                                              Enter,

                                                                                            Two Paths

                                                                             They All

                                                                Choose.

                                       One abandons

                       All Hope

   The Other,

Nothing

To Lose.

But none have made the journey,

                                     none to the

                                            core.

              For all who enter,

                                           leave and say

           "no more! no more!"

                     Here I have planted this garden that others accuse a maze.

                                                                                                 A beautiful creation covered by haze. But all that is seen is monstrous,

                                                          a trick of the daze.

Months and years at the center have been all of my stays.

Here I will watch and wait for the One who makes it, and is amazed.

                                                                                                              By all I have built, all I have dreamed and every aspiration and desperation has seemed

                    to build this

                                                             wonderful,

                                                              wandering

                                                                  place.

                                                  You who hear my case,

                                              I invite you to take that space.

              Be the One who makes it, leave all others to be commonplace.

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john-f-pinto
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Nov 15, 2012
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