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If we all,
tout le monde,
share one,
simply a moment

to rejoice
in freedom

that depends
on no one
or thing

other
than its own
desire to be,

it’s its own will.

I yearn,
so I crave,

I stretch in earnest
into only
hopeful things,

the art
of our possibilities,

the lyric wit
of our songs

our collective wit,
our prayerful songs.

And I love you best
perhaps by not knowing you

at all.

. . .

And you and I
will dive
from high towers . . .

© Chagall 2013