A SONG OF THANKSGIVING

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EARTHQUAKE!
........And on the arch man built
........To sweep across the sky
........Forty people dead!
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DISASTER!
.......Giant-winged, man reaches
.......Heavenward and flaming, falls.
.......Hundreds dead!
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AIDS!
.......Man's heedless fight for love
.......Touches innocents and infants.
.......Thousands dead!
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WARS!
.......Hunger, strife, drugs, rape
.......Age, pain; man's endless daily path.
.......Millions dead!
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Every morning father-sun
Makes blue the sky
And I
Forget the darkness of the night,
Waken to a song of light;
Build my version of a plane
Or arch to reach the sky.
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Fecund, earth-mother smiles
Her progeny heaven-bent
And I
Touch love, esctatic in the joy
Of celebrating birth!
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Thank God for courage to dare and to be;
Thank God for my "Brownie" with gape-toothed smile;
For children of loins and of love.
I have lost and won, known scorn and acclaim,
Lived in fear and distress;
Desparately grasped, gently released,
Made friends of pain and of death.
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When the time should arrive
That death is my mate
The very last laugh shall be mine,
For I have embraced the cosmic joke:
"Thank God" is my parting line.
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From Life's A Bitch by GeoE
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