As silently as an untold secret,
an owl passed over our headsinto trees and out of our viewforever. People, creatures,and things visit our lives,then leave. Come in, go out.And each of us passes byor into lives of others,and then we leave. Theyforget, we forget, and thenonce upon a future, we die.And the unseen owl has seizedsomething to eat & takes itto the nest in a forest beyond dreaming.
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