🪷 You Make Some Hope

When you’re already tired, 
  and you fall in the rain, 
when life just feels 
   like pain after pain,
and in the news, chaos 
   and cruelty reign,
you want a rope to grasp—

so, link by link, 
   you make a chain:
you add bits of beauty, 
   glimmers of grace,
pieces of purpose, 
   kindness, and space—
and you make some hope to clasp.

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sunrise this morning…for a bit of beauty

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(I did actually have a bad fall in the rain yesterday evening, pulled down by our Border Collie. Thankfully nothing’s broken, just bruised…and now I have this poem.)

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In the notebook

first version

second version (which I made up while driving, then scribbled at the school bus stop)

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