Sorrow’s End

When understanding dawns,
no pool of sorrow,
however hedged about with care,
however poignant,
gets to remain

Truth evaporates it
with the constancy of tender love

Love floods it
with ever present joy

Joy heals it
by being exactly what was needed –
all the tears are wiped away.

©Wendy Mulhern
June 2, 2017

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