(5) Varya and Anya’s Vigil
Sisters tethered by grief and promise,
one guardian of fading hope, one bright-eyed with spring.
They map futures in teacup rings,
trace horizons in drifting petals.
Together they tend debt’s brittle fire,
smiling around broken china.
In their hush resides a fragile vow:
to plant new life in barren hearts.
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crypticbard (Pseudonym) (
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How fragile hope. This poem strikes me of the balance between hope and its dying and a need to keep the fire kindled. Tea cups a symbol of seeing the future as hope does. Broken symbolizes lost hope. Sisters indeed the duality of hope and its loss and how closely they are related. A most wonderful write
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