With stubborn hope
@yonar on Twitter
I watch the bone-white smoke
Of a thousand
Burned prayers
Ascend into
The darkened sky,
Only to
Disperse unanswered.
Knowing full well
Heaven may have
Long been abandoned,
Still grateful I smile upward
Thinking hey,
At least
They left
A light on.
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