is essential to life. 

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Without it you shrivel up, cease to truly live,

but merely survive,

eventually returning to dust.

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The soul however lives on

beyond this earth.

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In June 1865, freedom was finally declared

to those enslaved Africans and their American descendants,

in Galveston,Texas who thirsted for far too long.

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The taste of freedom was all around them,

but was denied by those who did not understand

respect for life, for humanity, or their soul's connection to all that is.

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©2021   Writing received telepathically by Jan Smith Castronuovo

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