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When It Looks Like the End

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on April 1, 2024| 11 Comments »

            for Stumpy, and maybe for you
 
 
To survive. To not only survive,
but to bring joy. To bloom despite
our own hollowing.
 
To bloom despite the erosion
of the world in which we grew.
I speak of a cherry tree, but
 
I also, perhaps, speak of you—
how you have made of your life
not just a stump, but a story.
 
How in hostile conditions,
despite brackish odds,
you’ve found the drive to grow.
 
How your words and your actions,
like cuttings, might take on a life
of their own—a legacy
 
of resilience that finds a home
in the soil of the lives still here.
In this way, you continue
 
to flourish and be known.
In this way you are not here
and ever here. Gone
 
and never gone. In this way
one life is a blossom that disappears
and returns on a branch not its own.
 
None of us live forever.
Still the chance to give the best of ourselves
away. This is how we go on.
 
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