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I’m good at critique
But pitiful at praise.
And yet when I look around
I see grace up and down
Left and right, vertical
And across the horizon
It is found. It’s in my children’s
Faces and in my wife’s embraces.
It’s on paper as I write this down.
And in my heart as it beats its sound
Though one day—
its tick
will stop
—and I hope,
In that brief moment,
I take another chance to
Say again, “thank you.”
Robert that is why you are so loved, because you are humble.