Your golden joys were never girls or boys, pretty as they may have been— long of limb, fair of skin and all too momentary. Ah, contrary! You loved deeper and always (as in Eternally) more than the shallow cups of time could possibly allow for— the heart that beat the rhythm of your life was bigger than life by far. Your desire was too much for a single pale star, so you wished instead on galaxies! Compassion, peace, tolerance were all you ever wanted for a world too long haunted by opposing qualities. Embracing all, you chose one. Making peace your wife, you devoted your life to the only truth you knew of— for lack of a better word, love. —Richard Cody—
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