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Here's a companion poem to this.

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This one is called "The Mask."

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"What have you saved?

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What have you given
up so there can be

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dust in the clarity of things?

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When the soundless
dancer is the first thing

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you see in the morning,
something has changed.

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You are no longer frightened
by unexplainable grief.

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There is an endless
moon in the sky,

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but you gave it
a different name.

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What did you save?

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What passes for a voice in
the magnified moment of crying

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the way the cricket sings?

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The iron mask in
your wall is missed

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by the mummy shrouded in earth.

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When you helped
others dig it up,

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the air was cold for
an instant, but it was

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something you could believe.

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How sharp should the
color of a knife be?

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When you handle it, the
story you carve in the tree

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has already been told.

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Your late arrival expected
after bits of the night

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came apart in your hands.

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What have you kept?

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How have you lived?"

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