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Created on: April 21, 2009
Advent Candle
Lit a candle
For what, I don't know.
My heart is beginning,
My heart is hopeful,
My heart is open.
It is in the season,
What, I don't know.
A coming, something.
A coming, remarkable.
A coming, promise.
It is the light in the day,
What, I don't know.
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