Poem December 17, 1979 Issue

Self-abnegation does not mean

JONATHAN WILLIAM YOST

suppression of what you (
legitimate, wholly delightful, illimitably
                            YOU!
) are.

See it rather as cessation to
                    death,
                           end of
                    stasis,
                           silencing of
            willfulness.
Blissful denial of what you are not
by what you               (the very one)
                  must forever be!

Magnificent child, breathing out delight in identity
                           (yours, ours)
nothing can ever smother your uniqueness.

You cannot be done without;
God could not be what He most certainly is
without your crystal song.

JONATHAN WILLIAM YOST

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