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April shadows [41]

April shadows

Ice clings to winter
deep in furrows
where April shadows water-seeps
still frozen
waiting for June's melt.

Should spring ne'er come —

like high-peak snowbanks
persisting year to year,
like traces of life that lie in wait
in dark bleak reaches of the Void,
will I hold on?

Whence then your sun
and when —

come to soften stiffened hearts,
to mend
these scars of frost and drought
scratched across
the sleeping landscape of our thoughts?

When you waken them,
what then?

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.40] (13.april.2021)

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