We wonder what the gain could be in pain
embroiled so long in lives of trial and toil.
The answers grown in wisdom will be plain:
Ignited insight, granting grace to foil
the errors that proliferate in life,
becomes a torch for others on the Way
of self-discovery; amending strife
like darkness banished from a newborn day.
We are obliged, once privileged to See,
to share the understanding we have found
that keeps our spirits shining bright and free
and lets no ignorance nor hate confound.
Despite beliefs or creeds that we conceive,
no gift is given till one will receive













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Belle






















95 old applause
