Monday Prompts 07: meanwhile, your joy is a gift to me.
March's theme: dormancy and awakening
‘In The Meantime’ by Tom Hirons
Meanwhile, flowers still bloom.
The moon rises, and the sun.
Babies smile somewhere,
Against all the odds,
Two people are falling in love.
Strangers share cigarettes and jokes.
Light plays on the surface of water.
Grace occurs on unlikely streets
And we hold each other fast
Against entropy, the fires and the flood.
Life leans towards living
And, while death claims all things at the end,
There were such precious times between,
In which everything was radiant
And we loved, again, this world.
Recently I was a part of an event where we were gathering around the theme of change, and two people shared that they had recently gotten divorced, while another person was getting married in a few weeks.
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