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SO THIS IS WHAT YOU SEE
So this is what you see
When the rusted red tug
Has departed for the first time in 40 years
An open bay across to Belvedere
Strawberry and the Tiburon Peninsula
Shipping channel open to see
End of the Dock of the Bay
Is now as Otis sang
While the times are irretrievable
Just like our memories
Our lies, our loves, our children
Irretrievable
Leaving us to say
“It is what it is”
The non-profound profundity
Meaning, “I can’t change it”
Recognition of our limits
Individuals seeming powerless to change
Their lives on a path not of their choosing
Finding the only thing that you can change
Is your frame of mind
What wise ones call acceptance
Recognizing that all material things change
Subject to conditions
Beings born, decay, die.
What is left, if anything?
That may depend on your mind
Your thoughts and beliefs
Designing your life experience
For its entirety
You may see life after death
As an opportunity to enter Heaven
Or you may see something else
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