A Shared Grain of Hope

I have a small grain of hope-
one small Crystal that gleams
clear colours out of transparency. 

I need more

I break of a fragment
to send to you. 

Please take 
this grain of a grain of hope
so that mine won’t shrink. 

Please share your fragment
so that yours will grow. 

Only so, by division
will hope increase,

like a clump of irises, which will cease to flower
unless you distribute 
the clustered roots, unlikely source-
clumsy and earth-covered-
of grace. 

“For the New Year, 1981” ~ Candles in Babylon

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