Breakthrough
It’s a long and desolate road.
I think it’s always been so.
Such a desolate road to travel
before the brightness ahead,
the light after desolation
when the sun is freed
from its winter shackles.
Such a desolate road to travel
waiting,
hoping,
searching for the brightness,
the light after desolation
when the sun breaks through
to nurture and feed
the earth again
next year.
First published in New Ink Review, February 2019
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