why dusk still aches III

was it such coolness
in which you came gladdening
pure still lonely hearts

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  1. This haiku begs the question whether there can be such a thing as holy loneliness. Perhaps there can be, though I cannot succeed in detaching loneliness from a sense of being bereft in some way, and that I cannot think was an element of pre-Fall life. Last night in a current class on singleness at my church, someone in essence asked the question of whether Adam was lonely before Eve.

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