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Our Help in Pain: A Sacred Poem

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Apr 11, 2025
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Our Help in Pain

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

To those who ask, why was I born?
This well of tears, this sea forlorn
On which I’m tossed without a berth
Of even the most blasted earth.
I say to them, if not for you,
If not this world with pain shot through,
Who knows what other aimless fog
With gulf and grit wou…

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