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Tragedy and Balance

Rage at the moment
Fluttering away like air;
Tragedy’s horror

Sunlight descending
Clouds alight behind mountains
Crispness upon wind

The light awakens
Dawn drives us briskly forwards
Amongst the living

Darkness expanding
Growing from hidden places
Sunlight fades anew

Life arcs towards the light
Seeking freedom from sorrow
Bitterness wanes, too

Light drifting through trees
Dancing wildly through the leaves
Springtime calls my dreams

Sunlight trickles out
Color gracefully flowing
Each second, newness.

Like something
Jane Austen would’ve wrote,

Dancing around edges,
Flickering, flirting, motion,
Seducing me, drawing me
Closer than I should;

Then I would dare if I were
Rational. But that mind
Sleeps on the edge of
Where darkness meets
Light.

Sunlight cleansed skin,
Soul lightened by warmed bones.
Aches relieved by summer’s
Healing grasp, misery
Vaporized, floating
Along the wind.