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Hear This
Hear this, child, and listen:
There will be grief in your life
Oppressive, suffocating,
Gut wrenching, heart twisting,
Throat raw, chest compressed,
Never ending sorrow
Souls will break, backs will be stabbed,
And friends will turn self-destructive.
Your heart will lie bare and vulnerable in the midst of jagged glass
and scabrous sand
But it will be okay.
Because for how much wave-cresting , shoulder sobbing grief there is,
There is an equal to greater amount
of toe clenching, heart soaring
feet dancing, hair spinning
hands entangling, eye glistening
pure, unadulterated joy
There will be scratching on your window screen at 3 o’clock in the morning
Bonds so thick that they are almost tangible
A mother’s heart-breakingly warm embrace
So even as the sea crashes over you, keep your eyes fixed upon the whiteness of the moon
and hold out for that moment of beautiful freeness beneath the stars
Because it will come
It will come.
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