<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">Not To Make Loss Beautiful</font><div style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Not to make loss beautiful,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But to make loss the place</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Where beauty starts. Where</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the heart understands</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">For the first time</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The nature of its journey.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Love, yes. The body</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">of the beloved as the gift</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Bestowed. But only</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Temporarily. Given freely,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But now to be earned.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Given without thought,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And now loss</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Has made us thoughtful.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gregory Orr</span></font></div></div></body></html>