live & die

Just heard ... that your dad died near the end of last week.

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This life is fragile.
God's good grace is strong.
Enter single file,
out before too long.

Here as embryos,
very immature,
this is where one grows
to let self be lured

as a tiny seed

(not much like the plant

or the flowers freed)

just the life extant,

to be planted whole
in these soft brown earths,
lose our ev'ry goal,
gain a universe!