Hope’s Validation

Muted darkness

Gray and thick

Like a heavy shroud

Boiling silently across the sky

Obscuring the possibilities

Plump drops

Beating back the promise

Bending leaves and stems

Heads and flowers turned down

Toward the earth

Unexpected respite

Arcing against the muted backdrop

Prisms of brilliance

Shattered into perfect form

Where there was nothing

Written by Patricia Rhees