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Paradise

Paradise is WPFW; Dinah Shore and Billie Holiday
Paradise is pumpkin spiced candles;
Roobios red chai tea with carnation milk and pure cane sugar
Paradise is the rings of smoke from incense curling over your shoulder
Tapping gently just to say, “Hey, remember me – relax, breathe...deep”
Paradise is writing in warm clothes on a cold night
Paradise is everything in my soul is alright

Don’t know tomorrow
Can’t recapture the day
But confident
The Lord will make a way

A clap
A shout
“Amen!”
And a “That’s alright”

Paradise is the tone from piano keys
Touching my tear ducks
Paradise is smiling after a day of hell

Behold, the kingdom of God is at hand.
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