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Noah James III Mar 2022
As for the rest of my life, I shall remain attached to the wondrous magic of love.
If I continue in life with pain as excruciating as this, I will only do so with joy-love.
For myself, I've wavered beyond expiration.
Shrinking, I've been a coward for ages.
I even tucked away for far too long.
I shall stand with courage in my temporal clay house and produce, giving what I can.
I've given offense an abundance of honor and time, not realizing how crippling I already knew it to be.
Now, Noah, let each day release much weight.
I latch onto the responsibility to rise and let the gifts within have their righteous place to let grand present me.
2022
Noah James III Oct 2020
From Spirit's plane to ER, I
Waited 4 hours post triage.
Watched a middle aged white lady wail herself to the front of the line for her pain was the only thing that mattered in a room of other equally ill patients.

My body shocked and perhaps still in the sky.
It was this moment that solidified that I had matured: grown to know long suffering love more that the other traits. Patience was as rooted as my African ancestry, my black race.
This is an observation poem the stings me like Bee mid meditation & reflection. There is so much to unpack and release when the pain is this bad. I am grateful for another outlet that allows me to share my journey.

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