<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font class="">Adrift <br class=""></font><font class=""><br class=""> <br class="">Everything is beautiful and I am so sad.<br class="">This is how the heart makes a duet of<br class="">wonder and grief. The light spraying<br class="">through the lace of the fern is as delicate<br class="">as the fibers of memory forming their web<br class="">around the knot in my throat. The breeze<br class="">makes the birds move from branch to branch<br class="">as this ache makes me look for those I’ve lost<br class="">in the next room, in the next song, in the laugh<br class="">of the next stranger. In the very center, under<br class="">it all, what we have that no one can take<br class="">away and all that we’ve lost face each other.<br class="">It is there that I’m adrift, feeling punctured<br class="">by a holiness that exists inside everything.<br class="">I am so sad and everything is beautiful.</font><div class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font>- Mark Nepo</div></div></body></html>