The Two Faces of Spring

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Springtime is showing two faces this April:
birds building nests, blooms popping the surface
of warming earth, as, at the same time,
people gone too soon are being
tenderly placed in the ground
of a world gone still and quiet.

We are all waiting for this to pass.

Wild Woman never thought
she would be living through
such a schizophrenic time:
nature's beauty is as golden as it ever was,
at the same time as people are
fighting an invisible monster
that lurks on every surface and strikes
randomly, at will.

Heroes and madmen walk the earth,
their speech as adverse as their characters.
A girl sings a song, sweetly
hoping for better days,
and brings Wild Woman to tears.


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