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Hidden hope grows silently in darkness
Starkness
by Liz O'Neill
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Tangled, knotted, in stark bleakness of ice and snow
Longing for warmth and green
Longing for signs of life
Doubt, branches out
Twisting in all directions
Longing for gentleness in this harsh caress
Yet I stand against all forces
Tearing at me and trying to break me
So many stories
So many years
Reaching around into the cold darkness
Finding solitary emptiness
Ever so slowly
Newness emerges from weariness
Another chance
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Author Notes
I was studying a tree that looked dead in the cold grayness. In the spring it was full of green leaves. I was overjoyed.
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