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+ | ====== Froggies and Doggies of Light ====== | ||
+ | by Robert L. Paddock\\ | ||
+ | Copyright (C) 2022 | ||
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+ | Let there be light! | ||
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+ | Light is forever more. | ||
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+ | Lights the day. | ||
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+ | Lights the night. | ||
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+ | Guiding Light. | ||
+ | [1] | ||
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+ | Let there be light. | ||
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+ | Ever more light. | ||
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+ | To darkness removed. | ||
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+ | There is only light. | ||
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+ | Froggies and Doggies | ||
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+ | Enjoy the light | ||
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+ | Whiter than White | ||
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+ | There is always more light! | ||
+ | [2] | ||
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+ | Forever more you are loved | ||
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+ | in all the light | ||
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+ | by The Light. | ||
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+ | [1: At this point | ||
+ | Search for Tomorrow | ||
+ | (TV Soap Opera Series 1951–1986) final seen appears in my Mind's Eye: | ||
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+ | Stu to Joann: | ||
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+ | Joann: | ||
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+ | Guiding Light (TV Soap Opera Series 1952–2009). | ||
+ | I have no memorable scenes from GL?] | ||
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+ | [2: | ||
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====== The Death of Opossum ====== | ====== The Death of Opossum ====== | ||
by Robert L. Paddock\\ | by Robert L. Paddock\\ | ||
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There are several days in my life that I'd like a “do over” for. | There are several days in my life that I'd like a “do over” for. | ||
- | Do I got back to a few days before Karen' | + | Do I got back to a few days before Karen' |
Do I got back 24 years to prevent her car accident in the first place, | Do I got back 24 years to prevent her car accident in the first place, | ||
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Do I got back to the post office where I let a lovely looking young | Do I got back to the post office where I let a lovely looking young | ||
- | lady go before me, where there was a very long line at Christmas | + | lady go before me, where there was a very long line at Christmas. |
- | time. She hung around by the door clearly wanting me to talk to her | + | She hung around by the door clearly wanting me to talk to her |
and I was too shy at the time, something I've overcome with the | and I was too shy at the time, something I've overcome with the | ||
passing years. I would have never meet Karen at all. | passing years. I would have never meet Karen at all. | ||
Do I go back to high school and ask the girl there that I liked, that | Do I go back to high school and ask the girl there that I liked, that | ||
- | I was to afraid | + | I was too afraid |
Do I go back to the first big decision of my life when I was seven, | Do I go back to the first big decision of my life when I was seven, | ||
and my parents gave me a choice between Karate Lessons or an Organ | and my parents gave me a choice between Karate Lessons or an Organ | ||
- | with music lessons. I choose | + | with music lessons. I chose the music lessons, as being a Nerd, I was |
- | attracted to all the blinking lights and buttons of the organ. | + | attracted to all the blinking lights and buttons of the organ. |
+ | I should have chosen Karate. | ||
If we could pull at the threads of the tapestry of our lives how much | If we could pull at the threads of the tapestry of our lives how much | ||
- | of it will unravel? | + | of it will unravel? Do we want it too? |
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- | Do we want it to? | + | |
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- | We only regret those things that we do not do. | + | |
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- | Today by chance or fate, we can not know which, I chatted with a | + | |
- | lovely young lady as we left a meeting about our shared interests in | + | |
- | SiFi. | + | |
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- | I asked her to join me for lunch. | + | |
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- | What if she says ' | + | |
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- | Perhaps she'll say yes? Then new friends we may each have. | + | |
- | Her answers maters not, for asking the question means there is a new | + | I chatted with a lovely young lady as we left a meeting about our shared interests. |
- | regret I shall not have, fore we only regret that which we do not | + | I asked her to join me for lunch. |
- | do... | + | |
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