Higher Purposes
Leaves like gilded fruit
whose abundance
we cannot possess --
Except as an idea --
a promise, a hope,
a memory of the life
we are living -- and why
we must travel lightly --
our pockets empty,
our hands free --
to cup another's face,
to lift their lips to water.
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Martha T. Terrell
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