Sunday, December 5, 2021

Ember

 


I lay by the fire

absorbing warmth like a coal,
and even marinating
in all kinds of sorrow
the cracks of light glowed through me
just like embers
attesting to what I am made of
and what will sustain me
through this and every passage
to the dawn.

©Wendy Mulhern
December 5, 2021

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