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Karen Springer
The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
1 min readFeb 1, 2017

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And so, we meet again beneath vast bastions of deep endlessness

Interspersed with majestic peaks of basalt lava rock

I am known by many names under the same sun

Billions, millions of years basking in the light

Rodinia, Pannotia, Pangea gave birth to me

I ascended, I fell, to depths unimagined

Waves converging, colliding

As one perpetual push and pull

Earth ever grumbling under our feet

While we accelerate her anger in noble pursuits

But who, and what, and where, and when

Are no concern for why

Awash in oceans that have bathed countless wounds

Panthalassa, Poseidon, Mezcalera all converged and ran together

And last time I checked

Our blood turns all water red

A pale blue dot on the cosmos

The swill of madmen will decide its fate

And I will rise again

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Karen Springer
The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn

Award-winning professional resume writer. Corporate communications guru. Poet. Short story dabbler. The fickleness of human nature delights and perplexes me…