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Allemande.
By Wahneta Meixsell.
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Every garden needs diversity,
As grace and function both require it.
So ought gardeners desire it
To make a rich and robust harmony.
Every faith needs faiths that it might be
Resistant to the skeptics who surround it,
Pleased to have believers all around it -
Although segmented, a community.
So is life impoverished by a sameness
Self-imposed to ward off painful change,
Often through a fear that faith be lost.
Very little that one does is blameless.
Each embrace is not without its cost,
Redeemed by love, to which no soul is strange.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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