There You Are!

There you are, rising through the dead

leaves and grasses, muddy

hollows, sticks, and stones; your bright

spears of potential

pierce the detritus covering

your nested corm.

Your resilience

inspires, impresses

upon me that cycles

are worth enduring, that

light gains strength, that the living

win the day. 

There you are

 sentinels of spring, harkening

fresh hopes of new starts,

of do-overs and redemption,

stirring memories of my Catholic youth,

and the lightness at leaving

the dark confessional and bursting

through the church doors

back into the streaming sunlight, unweighted,

renewed, and ready

to begin again.

There you are!