Spring (2010)

The summer heat burns

Tar roads stretching for miles

So no one dares to walk

For fear of the journey ahead

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The autumn breeze sweeps by

Hurried phantoms push by each other

In opposite directions going nowhere

Not noticing the last leaf falling from the tree

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The winter chills the bones

That holds the heart in its cage

Rattling to find an escape

From the ocean of suffering

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Then spring appears.

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It brings ease to begin a pilgrimage,

Blossoms to stop and admire,

Warmth to thaw indifference,

So love can float gently in the air.

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Yet, in time, spring will leave.

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But by then I will be ready

To march through the burning trials of life,

To appreciate every encounter that passes by,

To part the ocean from the core of my being.

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Before spring reappears once again.