Poem March 24, 1980 ISSUE

Life cycle

ELIZABETH WOOLLEY

Vigor, power, and purpose—Vital signs of Life—give me conscious worth.(What a wonder, they never wear out!)They give me eternal genesisThat never in pulsation failsto flow me on.But not in narrow linear conceptsstop and goeventually stopping.So I refuse to enter pressure's picture.

Life's unhurried revelationQualifies your living purpose, too:It is to haveto gainto growto giveOf substance circulating freely,An image unprosaic, undefeatable, and so lovedThat valuation of divinityBecomes your validation of identity,signet of Life itself,a sign and wonderof Love's work.(Think of it: for you and for me.)

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