TAKE HEART
To escape the day’s news
I shut down my computer-
the poem could wait-
and turned to the window
long before sunrise
to watch a thunderstorm
roll in from the west.
Lightening illuminated
the wind-bent trees
with the rain visible only
in a ribbon of faint light
reflected on the pavement.
Be joyful in the ordinary;
this, too, shall pass.
– Joseph Neely
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