Paul Gauguin - Ia Orana Maria Aka Hail Maria (1891)
Grateful for another night.
To celebrate the dark, radiant vastness of beauty.
Grateful for another day.
To journey deeper into the wilderness of truth.
Grateful for the birds that sing the one into the other.
Before the dawn even looks into its mirror.
To start the blessed cycle again.
Grateful for another day and night.
To sink deeper into peace, and open up into greater love.
Grateful for another day and night.
To savor the blessing of this physical vehicle.
Grateful for another day and night.
To gently let go of the known, and passionately embrace the Unknown.
-- Richard Power
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