Await joy

Await joy

To arise again

After winters of doom

Surrounded your soul in gloom

Keeping so far from you

Signs of awakened life

Slumber if you will

Deep within

The sloughs of despond

For however many seasons or reasons

They possess you

But do not forget

That even as you feel

Utterly broken

Deep inside

Forces may be working

To reassemble

All that was shattered

Into new forms of expression

Which in time

May surprise you anew

With their awakening

Giving birth from deep inside

To dawning glimpses

Of joy

Piercing again the surrounding gloom

Of you soul’s long wintery afternoon.