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“All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all does not last forever does it? There is summer, too, and spring, and though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always."
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A Trail of Tears
By Joy Strickland

They say that He never sleeps
And He never slumbers
But surely on that day
In that moment
Without warning
God blinked
But it would be hours before I knew
And when first I heard
My lungs were shocked into numbness
It seemed like an eternity
Before my breath would come
And when it did emerge
It lurched and leaned and swayed as if
Trying to avoid a head-on collision
With this new reality
And now when I view my reflection
I am surprised to find no disfigurement
Confident as I am that some tangible part of me
Has been torn away
And scornfully cast to the wind
What else could cause such pain?
My spirit, ravaged by this private holocaust
Still searches the night
For illusive Reason
But finds only an unfaltering
Trail of Tears


Copyright 1994 All Rights Reserved

Joy Strickland is CEO of Mothers Against Teen Violence, Inc.
(www.matvinc.org)
She is also a certified wellness coach (coachjoy.wordpress.com)


 
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