<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 dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xdj266r x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">Winter Grief</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">Let the rest </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">in this rested place </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">rest for you.</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">Let <span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""><a tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); cursor: pointer; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""></a></span>the birds sing quietly</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and the geese call</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">from far off</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and let the sky race</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">from west to east </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">when you cannot </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">lift a wing to fly.</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">Let evening trace </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">your loss in the branches</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">against a fading sky.</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">So that you can give up</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and give in</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and be given back to,</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">so that you can let</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">winter come and live</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">fully inside you,</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">so that you can</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">retrace the loving path</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">of heartbreak </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">that brought you here. </div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">So you can cry alone</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and be alone</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">so you can let yourself alone</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">to be lost,</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">so you can let the one </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">you have lost alone, </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">so that you can let</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">the one you have lost </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">have their own life </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and even</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">their own death</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">without you.</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">So that the world</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and everyone who has ever lived </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and ever died can come and go </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">as they please.</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">So you can let yourself not know, </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">what not knowing means.</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">So that you can be</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">even more generous in your letting go</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">than they were in their leaving.</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">So that you can let winter </div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">be winter.</div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">So that you can let the world alone</div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">to think of spring.</div><div style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre;"> </span><font color="#050505" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- David Whyte</span></font></div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; 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