December Poetry Challenge: A Year is a Miracle

Anger and bitter blackness, shocking when viewed from a distance,
was close and real and tangible as smoke..
trying to choke the truth planted in me.

Light creeps in as slow as sunrise,
a smile here and a wise word there,
thawing the winter in my soul,
starting a glow, almost too small to see.

Sunshine burst forth goldenly, a heart changed and healed
the pain of youth can clear like clouds from a grey sky
making room for beauty.

A year is a miracle, more transformational than you know.
each day brings change.
Slight as the opening of a rosebud.
and one day you'll discover, you have bloomed.