<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span">The Well of Grief</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Those who will not </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">slip beneath the still surface</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">on the well of grief, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">turning down through its black water </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">to the place where we cannot breathe </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">will never know the source </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">from which we drink the secret water, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">cold and pure, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">nor find in the darkness, glimmering, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">the small round coins thrown by those </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">who wished for something else.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- David Whyte</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>