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by Christopher Lapinel

'Shaking Off the Oppressive Gloom'

On dark, lonely nights
when all your thoughts
freeze your fingers and toes.
When your heart jitters
in your chest and all seems
like a huge mistake,
like a wrong turn taken
on a misbegotten road,
then just remember this:
it is all, always,
a matter of perspective.

Your heart may not
instantly leap to joy
with this news
and your fingers and toes
may remain cold all the night long.
Yet if you keep this thought close,
every time your mind turns a dark corner,
you will discover resilience -
a gathering resistance
to the oppressive morbidity.
As the resistance gathers,
sunlight will enter you again
and fill your fingers and toes with
golden warmth, from within.

Then you can shut your eyelids gently
and sleep, awaiting peacefully
the sunlight through your blinds.

It is, always, a matter of perspective.

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