When will new life spring

Rising up from long darkness?

We wait still in hope

Dead leaves settle down

Leave me in the dirty ground

Who wants to be found?

The line of pine trees

Dividing the horizon

A rend in the clouds

Across the valley

Another world opens up

Carry me away

Am I still afraid

To try my best? Or am I

Just not good enough?

Sunlight and shadow

Questions without an answer

Empty and hollow

Though you are older

You will see more years than I

Mine simply fly by

Half a silver moon

Hanging in the cinder gloom

Falling back down soon

Day silently breaks

The surface of the duck pond

Set your sights beyond

Where earth and sky meet

A hazy gloom descending

Spectres rising up

Square words in round ears

I cannot navigate this

Mutable cloud maze

Kindle another flame

Catch the corner, watch it grow

Fire drives away dark

Sunlight still filters

Through these dusty old windows

I keep them open

Remake the rainbow

Reimagine refraction

Reform and reborn

Swim against the stream

Keep walking the winding road

Plough your own furrow

Huddle up against

The wind, the sleet and the snow

Stronger together

Leaf strata compose

An ever growing cover

For our longest sleep

Darkness lies below

When it enters in our eyes

Where does the light go?