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Never Even
There's a moment or two
sometimes,
as I travel the South,
past mown fields of hay,
with my windows down,
smells and swirling memories in my head,
and it's so real,
and it's so you,
but I've never even been there.
 
There's a flash of insight
sometimes,
rushing from the twilight,
across the hills and valleys,
with my guard down,
lights and emotions popping off in my head,
and it's like yesterday,
at most the day before,
but I've never even seen that light.
 
There's a trilogy of thought
most always,
it travels wherever I go,
whether noonday scents of hay,
or nocturnal glints among the shadows,
it always is, always was,
and it's always what it will be,
it's like coming home again,
when I've never even been away.

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