In that instant
Of hearing that sweet voice
Then I too
Wanted to sing
I too
Wanted to be able
To express
My joy with this life
A nun
With her iPad
She was the first person
Into Conventual Mass
I had watched her
Walk across the concourse
In the first light
Of the brand new day
The bells tolled
Close to the gathering time
And I remembered
My last time of leaving this place
I had heard then their welcoming sound
Though at quite some distance
For I loaded my car
And o, so so ignominiously departed
I did not know then that I might return
But I have, and I may do so again, and again
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