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By Arlon Staywell
OKLAHOMA CITY 1990 — Also one of the first "official" writings of Arlon Staywell this one gives a better indication where the writing does start.

            Never and Forever Belong to God

    If at any time there were nothing
    Then there would still be nothing
    And so the curtain on eternity flutters
    And a nagging thirst finds still water
    But life becomes a play
    Somehow outside comic or tragic
    The personality is almost crushed
    By treasures of heaven so great
    And the pilgrim takes his own pack
    With new ease as I did mine saying

    Angels have travelled freely, far and broad
    High, low too peripatetically trod
    This remains though much trampled is the sod
    Never and forever belong to God

Heaven does not give up the winter though people dislike the cold.

Hsun Tzu

© MCMXC, MCMXCVII by Arlon Ryan Staywell

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