Dawn & Dusk

Deep rivers
Unsearched depths
Buried grief
Tears unwept

Rise to the surface
Bubbling pain
Erupt like fountains
Misery lived again

A tsunami approaches
Coming for my heart
I brace myself
To be blown apart

But as the waves hit
Instead, I find
My roots are strengthened
My spirit refined

Pain is not the end
No, it is only the start
Every good thing is enriched
As misery is changed into art

Let Pain’s rivers flow
Out of your soul
Let it water your future
Hold it in no more