Hope Finds A Way

The oceans of mundane

Almost swallow me whole

Bitter morning train rides

Winter has taken hold

I feel grey soak the earth

When the Summer wears off

The trees barren and bear

The sun concedes it loss

Hearts seem to grow heavy

As inky clouds coat the sky

The warmth helps us forget things

Like those long lonely nights

I look around at the gloom

A collective that is drained

Shoulders carrying excess

Bruised violet from the strain

Indigenous teens in jail

Gas prices are on the rise

Parking fines at hospitals

Emptiness and unlived lives

See,

When the outside feels scary

I know to turn my gaze inside

I seek out a path to my heart

The corners twist, bend and wind

The walls feel all broken,

Like it’s been a long fight

The path trudges me through grief

Until I see buried underneath, is the light

And it all seems to make sense

My fractured pieces feel whole

And I remember my home

Is in the smile of my soul

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So who am I in the dark?

Where the sun refuses to shine

I’m a girl kinda finding her way

In the grips of decay, choosing life

Armed with the power of hope

Growing deep in my bones

Hope for a better tomorrow

In the garden of a solitary rose

From a single flower

That grew proud and tall

Through a pavement crack

Life even as cement sprawls

Beauty through adversity

And though an act so small

How rebelliously defiant

To seek love through it all.