by Carol Hopkins
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We live here as individuals painfully locked
in frozen fields of private dreams, opinions and self-righteousness.
If we are lucky, the separation becomes so unbearable we are pierced through the heart.
When the heart is torn open, we step out of time into the open arms
of the ever present Beloved One.
Beyond this, all words fail.
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THE FLOOD PLAIN, POEMS BY CHARLIE HOPKINS 
Rumi must have been inspired by Carol Hopkins!
They know the same thing. Thanks, Judy.