Ascent

I feel the green that’s come over me,

New life bursting through

In places I never dreamed of before. 

How did I survive so long as only asphalt

When there was a garden 

Ready to burst through the cracks. 

I thought I’d be forever trapped,

An ice queen frozen,

Dead in a wintry desolation. 

But I thawed, resuscitated myself.

I left the land of the dead,

But unlike Orpheus, I will not look back.

A Limerick for the New Year

Each day that I further traverse,

To escape what once was my curse. 

I will heed to the plea

Of my pale Eurydice

And steadfastly remain on course.