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The surest test if a person is sane
Is if they accept life whole, as it is,
When without needing to measure or touch to understand
The measureless, untouchable source of its images,
The measureless, untouchable source of its substances,
Which, while it appears dark emptiness
Brims with a quick force farthest away,
and yet nearest at hand from the oldest time until today,
Is changing its images with origin:
What name need I know of the origin than this?



Henry Meyerding 2007-01-27