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I posted an updated version: I posted an updated version because I accidentally didn't post the finished version. But I think it's right now. 

Thank you very much for: Thank you very much for visiting the poem and for commenting.  I realize you are pressed for time right now, and I am very grateful that you made a time in your busy day to stop by.

Excellent metaphor, presented: Excellent metaphor, presented in the most succinct and powerful format.  This, to me, hearkens back to the greatest of the Greek epigrammatists.

Thank you: I really appreciate you taking the time to send me a comment :)

"they are only birthmarks of: "they are only birthmarks of a greater becoming" "The ground beneath you trembles because you are rising." Beautiful!!!

Addendums, Annotations, Footnotes... :    quotes that I actually remember the sources of or which book I read them in or where I might have heard it or who may have said it...    "The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning" - Mark Twain  ~ "No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren" - Henry Taylor  ~ "Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God" - Lenny Bruce... if you will permit me Lenny to add in "& turning their backs on the government"... that wall we've built between "Church&State" doesn't really exist... ya'll go ahead and keep trying though, I'll watch from here... no I will not hand you that brick... ~ "Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind" - ACIM #52:8 ~ "If I should die in my sleep tonight I don't want to have wasted today worrying about the tomorrow that will never come" - Author Unknown (just gonna file that under Words-To-Live-By) ~ "Democracy is Anarchy mixed with Polity" - Terence McKenna    

Thank you, Sir!: Thank you, Sir!