Contentment

[Magpie]

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Once, I stayed awake so long
that all peripheral non-essential 
operating systems shut down
and basic programming took over.

Heading home
across fields,
weaving between sheep
it took an age to notice the heavy rain
that had soaked me through.

Sheep probably never notice the rain
-- I thought.

It was a beautiful freedom.

Now when I see sheep I laugh.

It keeps me from crying.
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I once stayed awake so long
that all periphery non-essential 
operating systems shut down
and basic programming took over.

On a straight line home 
it took an age to notice the heavy rain.

No furrowed brow.
Acceptance.

This must be the way that sheep are
-- I thought.
It was a beautiful freedom.

Now when I see sheep I laugh.

It keeps me from crying.