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The Blind Man Who Gave me Vision...

The Blind Man Who Gave me Vision...

David Allan Linn, 1953 - 2019

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David Linn in a pair of kaki shorts and a black tee shirt sitting on a tandem bike. He’s holding onto the Banana handlebars. One foot is on the ground and the other on the right pedal. Attached to the bike is a red cart with sides on it. Two small boys are seated inside the cart ready to be taken for a ride by their dad.
David Linn on tandem bike

David Allan Linn, R.I.P.

Oh, how you are still missed by me.

It has been four years and three days

since God kissed your lips 

and took breath away.

Yet, my heart hasn’t managed to count those days

As a means of mitigating the missing of all of your ways.

The pain of your absence 

just 

stays and stays…

Blindness has been des…

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