Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Absolution

to do what you ignore
what weighs heaviest now
free it and say that is all
clapping your hands clean of dust

these weights are all words

we say i endure my sorrow
for i know one day soon 
i’ll have love and happiness

pressed against a wet stone wall
peering through an aperture awestruck
by an impossibly beautiful blue sky
the same as that over your head

instead
find a blossoming tree
climb high in its branches
grab fistfuls of joy

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