The Courage Of Purity

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The Courage Of Purity

Then: In other lives We lived We had nothing But a better life We dreamed of Sleeping honesty Bade us Hide our deep desires And hurt us that hiding did Till tolerance Was none We woke And walked away One day Whatever the reason And vowed Never to sleep talk again Now: There are shapes As like a heart But sculpted of salt From tears Thrown over shoulder Not from superstition But for satisfying closure In confidence These crystallized clarities Are cast into the abyss Of the past And nothing is asked for back From that blackness Only sodium trails Are left in night tides As we seek Rising suns that hide . We know We are enough Have enough love To light the way We have A gift of trust To make a hard heart Soft and flesh We care To make our arms stone And fortress who we hold No more danger Difficulty or problems Are sought to relearn What already burned us Our raw desire For moral benevolence Is no thin spun thread We hang from It is a lowered bridge We help others