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Instead .....................(for Cecilia)
Cry not for the loss
Let your tears be
for the happiness he
has brought you
Grieve not for his memory
Instead
place a single yellow leaf
against your cheek
and recall
the love, the life
he has shared with you
Fall not into despair
for he is with you now
and all ways
© 1995, TAJ
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