Higher Ground

Emerging from dark shadows

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Higher Ground

Joy crept back in uninvited

I’d grown accustomed to the pain

I didn’t know what to do with my hands

So I did nothing

But breathe

I tried to breathe in this new air of hope

But the cruel always comes to cast long, dark shadows…

By the unloved and the well paid, disrupters of beauty and decency, their misery loves our company

So I sought higher ground

Burying my head in the music of the living and the dead

Trying to adjust both heart and soul

To this new feeling

—Heidi Siegmund Cuda

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Election night 2020, self portrait.