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Nick Leforce
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The Seed
of Life
by Nick LeForce
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Just before those first
rays of sunlight appear
on the horizon
you can feel the night
longing for the day.
It is raw and simple
like life confined
to a seed waiting
for the right time
to burst forth.
The seed of life in you
needs that dark place
to grow into a yearning
the husk cannot hold.
Until,
no matter how hard
your shell, it will crack
open to the light coming
from beyond
your own horizon.
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Beauty is not hidden
in empty rooms and broken hearts
you simply do not see it
Beauty is not lost
in lonely abandoned lots
covered over in weeds of regret
you simply do not feel it
Beauty is not absent
even in the discord that lives within you
you simply do not hear it
Beauty flowers inside
your suffering as well as your joy
spreads a rainbow across your sadness
blankets your night sky with stars
and rises in you each morning
with the opening of your eyes
for there is no beauty in the world
that is not within you
and when you live beauty
from the inside out
you will fall in love with the world
and be caressed
by every precious passing moment
you will walk
broken hearted
into empty rooms
and dance to your own discord
you will weed out regrets
one by one
from your own abandoned lots
making way for the flowering of you
and you will return again to the garden
you never left
and find beauty
waiting there
all around you
simply to be seen
to be felt
to be heard
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You can give me
all the reasons
why you came
and they will not account for
why you are here
there is more life
in “once upon a time”
than in all the logic
of the last five thousand years
I will never know you
by your name
or occupation
I will never know you
by your degrees
or your income
I will only know you
by the stories of
what has shaped your soul
what moves you
through your days
and what dreams
you hold precious
so come
-------sit with me
tell me the tales
of the wars
-------you have waged
the hearts
-------you have broken
the loves
-------you have lost
the lessons
-------you have learned
the trials and triumphs
-------in a life lived
as only you can live it
told as only you can tell it
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Life Among Lives
by Nick LeForce
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Weaving a way through the crowd
moving among the unknown people
-------that people the unknown world within you
No more strangers to each other
-------than we are to ourselves.
Brushing an arm,
-------a glance,
--------------a nod
a life passes by that could be your own.
-------This one
--------------someone’s mother
-------This one
--------------someone’s lover
-------This one no one
--------------you would want as a friend
As you move on your own
-------unknown journey
--------------a life among lives
Believing yourself to be
-------the one known and not
-------a foreigner in the throng
--------------of your own being
Not knowing you are
brushing against another life
-------that is just a glance
-------just a nod away
-------from the life
--------------you call
--------------your own
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