Paralysis

Turns out Winter isn’t in December for all of us

Some grieve in Spring others on January third

 

But there is barely a soul exempt

From ordeals worthy of collapse

In every wall an aching dent

Patterns shared in familiar gaps

 

Remember grief is shapeable

For rebirth you are responsible

Paralysis as a choice

Inertia as a vile tendency

 

Will you tell me when comes your solstice?

As it is a rather violent thing to heal

Yet violence worthy of the tenderness

Of what is found in our ideal