This is the one and only
Firmament; therefore
It is the absolute world.
There is no other world.
The circle is complete.
I am living in Eternity.
The ways of this world
Are the ways of Heaven.

It is the moon that disappears
It is the stars that hide not I
It’s the City that vanishes, I stay
with my forgotten shoes,
my invisible stocking
It is the call of a bell

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An Eastern Ballad

I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful, although blind;
She moves in thought she cannot speak.
Perfect care has made her bleak.

I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild.

by Allen Ginsberg

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