POEM
Rest
By Richard Jones
Sometimes we glimpse that everything's okay just as it is. Everything's fine.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.