And there I stood

A poem

And there I stood
for the flowers to sprout out of sedimentary rocks

Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

a beating heart
paused breaths
steady gaze in flickering lashes
cold curled toes

Yet, hands to warmth of belly furnace
that core in the frozen whole
blazing and sure -
it will
and blossom~serenity.

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

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