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                      A Crack in the Darkness

                      Published by Betty Naegele Gundred at June 4, 2022
                      Categories
                      • Blog
                      • Poetry
                      Tags
                      • darkness
                      • looking for purpose
                      • quarentines
                      • zumba
                      dark mountains with a light cracking the sky

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                      Betty Naegele Gundred

                      The sun did not rise today,
                      like our country, our world,
                      it is dark outside,
                      stormy.

                      I shuffle through my house,
                      looking for purpose,
                      turn on the Keurig
                      and open my laptop
                      to headlines warning
                      disease . . . death . . . quarantines.
                      I close the lid.
                      The gloom within rumbles
                      threatening to unloose me.

                      What armor will I wear today –
                      a Zumba dance on You Tube,
                      an attempt at baking ciabatta,
                      crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles?

                      We think ourselves genius,
                      but the microworld
                      has outsmarted us –
                      a piece of RNA holds us hostage
                      in our homes.

                      Yet just outside the door,
                      the world we can see thrives –

                      a doe tiptoes across a distant field,
                      dotted with daffodils,
                      and dark-eyed juncos alight
                      at my feeder –

                      I need to be grateful . . .

                      Another glimpse out the window
                      makes me smile.
                      A persistent sun has found
                      a crack in the darkness.

                      Betty Naegele Gundred
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