<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">I’ll sing Hallelujah.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Say what you want. I’ll still sing, Hallelujah,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> Even with a body politic inane, humanity in boundless</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> pain, a world certifiably insane, I will continue to sing</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> because you and I still romp within this cosmic thing</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> that’s still in swing. So yes, I’ll sing Hallelujah.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">I’ll join in the song, I’ll even play along as so many who </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">live in despair and have little reason to care or dare to aim</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> their eyes on the prize, I still choose to believe that the force </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">that welcomes our gifts and prayers reminds us that</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> this cosmic thing is still in swing.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">So yes, I’ll sing Hallelujah.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Even this body I see, that I believe to be me, as I gaze </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">past the haze of what I feel with my hand I understand that </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">buried within cells of my being are the ever sacred scribes</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> of ancient tribes that are yet writing the tome of my journey toward </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">a home that has yet to be fully known. The wind song of this </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> truth reminds me that this cosmic thing is still in swing, </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">So I’ll continue to sing Hallelujah.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">What I think was the past is not really so, the last is first, </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">the first is last, and this moment is all there is, as you surely know. </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Now I can rail against the universal tide or hermitize the light</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> the light inside, but I’ll still hitch my ride to that cosmic </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">thing that’s still in swing and I’ll continue to sing Hallelujah.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">But for now, let’s put the world’s troubles aside, and let’s be </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> held by the three-quarter time of Leonard Cohen’s rhyme, </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">for the music of the universe is comin’ right at us, so let’s </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">spread the word that this cosmic thing is still in swing, and</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"> the great pendulum movin’ through me and you is inviting us </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">to sing: </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Hallelu—yeah!</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- bruce silverman</span></div></body></html>