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In a world full of injustice and pain
how do we learn to see beauty
to cling to it, to call it hope?
Are we born believing
that the wide expanse of sky
cracked with sunlight
just after a thunderstorm
is an affirmation,
a reward
for putting one foot in front of the other?
Or is beauty something we’ve invented,
a story we tell ourselves
to make sense of our quiet desperate need
to keep breathing.

October, 2009