<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;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-size: 22px;">For Beauty, Poetry<br><div><br></div><div>For beauty, poetry, its song and sound</div><div>to speak the now beyond profound, </div><div>each moment lost as soon as found,</div><div><br></div><div>with words to somehow capture</div><div>but a glimpse of this world’s rapture</div><div>before our own impossible departure. </div><div><br></div><div><div>But how the wickedness we witness</div><div>to the splendor make consistent, </div><div>when the one to other such a distance?</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Between grim and goodness, the balance</div><div>tests our mettle and our talents,</div><div>with only our heart’s guidance. </div></div><div><br></div><div>The pain to see life’s betrayal </div><div>by us when we are in denial</div><div>and only offer love refusal,</div><div><br></div><div>can silence song and render</div><div>hope’s hot embers</div><div>a forlorn surrender.</div><div><br></div><div>I helpless stand and marvel,</div><div>impotent in time and shackled,</div><div>as to my end I travel.</div><div><br></div><div><div>But may I and you forgo despair, remain standing.</div><div>To keep singing </div><div>is no simple but the only calling,</div></div></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage" style="font-size: 22px;"><div><div dir="auto" 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;"><div dir="auto" 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;"><div dir="auto" 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;"><div dir="auto" 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;"><div dir="auto" 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: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Tim Hicks</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>