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I think I needed this poem more than you. Read it if you're weary and need something gentle.
Come sit down beside me, darling,
on this old familiar ground
The crickets know your name here
and the wind comes around
You are something worth the waiting
you are soil after rain
all the cracking and the breaking
wasn’t ruin, it was a lane
a lane that’s leading somewhere
somewhere warm and wide and new
You’ve been carrying your worry
like a stone inside your chest
but honey, even rivers
stumble to their rest
they bend around the boulders
they don’t ask them to move
they just find the softer water
and they carry on the groove
Fear no turning of the season
fear no frost upon the vine
what is leaving had its reason
what is coming waits its time
You’re a blessed mess, a glory
you’re a fire half-begun
you’re the middle of a story
not the damage, not the done
Plan your garden, plant your seedlings
but let the rain come as it will
there’s wisdom in the yielding
there’s power in the still
You are finer than you know
you’re the seed beneath the winter
you’re the river’s undertow
just keep going with the flow.
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Just what I needed to push me forward on a new path in my life. Thank you
Beautiful, exactly what I needed to read today!