Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know
what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.
I did not expect to survive,
earth suppressing me. I didn't expect
to waken again, to feel
in damp earth my body
able to respond again, remembering
after so long how to open again
in the cold light
of earliest spring--
afraid, yes, but among you again
crying yes risk joy
in the raw wind of the new world.
Snowdrops
Louise Gluck
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Poem topics: despair, feel, joy, light, spring, wind, winter, world, long, cold, open, survive, body, afraid, earth, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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