01-28-2026, 02:56 AM
(12-14-2025, 01:58 AM)adat Wrote: Love flows,"Glass that cuts" I don't really see how it relates to the rest of the stanza. Either cut it out or change it to create a better flow to the beginning of the stanza.
itself a hidden stream
beneath the city
sleeping—
fear and hope
rush downstream,
unseen
but not unfelt.
Joy runs
along a path at dawn,
hungry for the day
to come,
longing for the newborn sun—
a vision
neither commenced
nor yet done.
Grief tears --
no, stabs --
jagged blade,
flash severing flesh,
leaving us to wonder
at the carnage;
realizing it is us,
as we crumble
to the ground.
Stabs doesn't make sense if you then go on to say severing. Tears would be more appropriate.
God spills
from the clouds above,
washing away
crimson tears
lifting what can stand,
leaving the rest:
an offering
to what could not be.
