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Come!
Cross over the threshold!
Enter the garden!

Play!

Leave your clothes
and fears--
whatever keeps you
from knowing your self
and God.

Feel the velvety leaves
of African violets
nudge your milky
skin.

Shed the darkness
you grasp,
Savor the succulent
fruit of goodness!
Come satisfy your
naked self
with God.

For I am Eve
and you Adam,
We are the raw
roots of the
tree of
life entwining,
reaching deeper
inward
into
Light.