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Friday, May 10, 2013

common soul * 5/10/13


Under their limited caste
and karmic circumstances,
a paper plate sits on the table 
wishing only to be
the likes of a paper napkin
in a paper napkin’s life,
while a paper napkin
also sits there on the same table,
secretly wishing to be 
the likes of a paper plate
in the paper plate’s life.
Glances are distantly exchanged.
Later they happenstance met
in the trash,
face to face, so to speak,
only to discover
the tragic story
they commonly share.
But in doing so
they come to recognize
that they may have come
from the same forest,
surprisingly from the same stand,
maybe even the same tree.
They then commonly rejoiced
at their mutual consternation
that has given them
a depth of perspective
and their shared consciousness
of common soul . . .


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