She Rises

A poem of gratitude for all the light in the world

The swollen sun faithfully wakes.

She rises,

and her watery warmth

pushes through a smoky

translucent shroud

knit into the atmosphere

by the nimble fingers

of a world crumbling apart. 

Her body lifts up from the depths.

She rises

and casts illumination, warmth, goodness

upon the darkness of the world.

No amount of smoke or smog or squalor will stand in the way

of what she knows

she needs to do.

No amount of danger or darkness or devilry will prevent her from rising up

and blazing light across the earth.

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