Losses Regained

Like Winter
predicts Summer

Dark grey suffering
is not yet total green forest
and blue sky loss

As one cold
lonely voice
isolating experience
need not preclude
warm
yet alone
embracing vulnerable memories
transparent images
anticipating full-bodied reconnections,
compassionate life choices

As EarthTribal respiration
invites EarthMother regeneration
wombs reproductive
eggs
nuts
seeds

Surviving thistles
not yet Othering
weeds

As painful apartheid
is not yet anxious death
nor anticipating life

As isolating trauma discoveries
are not yet therapeutic
solitary thoughts
anticipating glad feelings
passionate 
about sacred intimacy,
boundless recovery.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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