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The evening light upon the pregnant tide

Breaks up the psychic babble in my head

Easing my soul back into the wide

Expanses of the real which I so dread

Preferring my own thoughts before the sight

You constantly offer.  If I had

The slightest understanding that your might,

So enigmatic, could outweigh the trivial and sad

Self-centred contemplation, how I would

Forsake it, follow where you want to lead;

Yet doing so, though I know that I should,

Seems more than this dull brain can now secede.

If only this rare beauty had the power

To cleanse my evening thoughts, like a cold shower.

Dr Brian Hick June 2011

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