Resilience

The late snow came

wet and heavy 

it blanketed 

the early blossoming trees

 bending them to its will

 

and then

it was gone

overwhelmed by spring

its cold grip no match

for

the emergence of

new life

 

and yet

its imprint remains

some trees, bent almost to the earth

have sprung back

reaching again

joyfully to the sky

 

others remain bent

with help

perhaps

they too will once again stand tall

and proud

 

others

like broken on the ground

their green vitality

already shriveling into

brown death

 

why do some recover

gently

and why for others

does the imprint

of adversity 

remain

or overwhelm?

 

why too

do some people recover

from those dark

winter moments of the soul

while some 

remain bent

and some

are

broken?

 

resilience?

flexibility (openness)

responsiveness (and ability to open up to the healing

that comes from the sun/son)

 

perhaps there is

no formula

 

but from those moments that 

would bend and break

deliver us O God

or send us One

send us one

who can help us

reach once more

proudly

for the sky