Rise
I was dead and buried,
a corpse rotting in soil.
No sunshine reached me,
my flesh falling away, hollowed.
But I am alive now,
green and bursting forth.
So much has been lost,
while I slept in the ground,
but now I am here again,
ready for each new day.
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