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This is a poem about overwhelming gratitude in a world of constant change and great loss. Gratitude is perhaps the best antidote to resentments. Still, even if one lets go of resentments, one often needs to say goodbye to whatever purpose those resentments served, in yet another change mourned.\u00a0 Every moving forward requires leaving behind.<\/p>\n

Watery Grave<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I wake
\nFinding myself
\nDrowning in a tsunami
\nOf gratitude
\nI new
\nThere would be casualties
\nInevitable losses
\nThat fateful mourn
\nBefore me
\nBared at see
\nBodies of resentments
\nI shed a tear
\nAt their passing
\nA singular tributary
\nTo their watery grave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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