Songs of Courage

Editor's Note: We are so grateful to Lynn for sharing her poem with us. Lynn, you have an incredible gift of writing - your words are powerful. We are truly honoured to know you, support you and witness you find meaning and beauty in the every day. Wishing you sunny days full of digging in the dirt and tending to your garden of bounties.

"Songs of Courage"

Life is rich and barren

Days, bleak and full of joy

The paradox of living

Is not lost on me.

Grief is a state of being

Borderless

Timeless

Unknown

Familiar

Each path unique,

Universal.

Where is self inside grief?

Utterly changed

Old molds shattered

Patterns microscopic

Where Us was

I exists.

I wait to feel the green

Rebirth

Knowing the ground is me.

Waiting

For the gardener to arise.

Knowing

I am the gardener.

- Submitted by Lynn Chapman, Bridge C-14 Community Member