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Once More

Deep within this weeping world,
where darkness hides the smiles
behind faded curtains of disbelief
now blocking the sun…waits
two arms longing to hold you,
offering comfort of softened ease
extended from broad shoulders strong,
ready to bear the load
of the sorrow that grips your heart

for it is found of this gesture,
long of these collected words
a friend who cries at the emptiness
which now must clutch your chest,
ripping wounds of a motherly kind
past any scar once felt or healed,
desperate to make whole
these frantic needs circling your mind
retracing each back step of questioned fault

distance may carve miles from stone
and leave falling farther from near,
yet beyond any horizon, any vertical detour
thorned bramble archway or cliffside hauntings,
I will reach, grasp and claw
hoping to lift you from this darkness,
to shine that light of hope
with every ounce of energy my body owns
so that your world may be bright once more