Exceptional Hidden hope grows silently in darkness Starkness by Liz O'Neill

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 Recognized 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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