Flash Frozen

Life
Cycles like 
Seasons
Gain and loss
Growth and decay
Can’t have one
Without the other

Grief
Strikes swiftly
Tosses you into
Deepest winter
It numbs
Muffles
Deadens

Winter
Seems eternal
Some more
Than others
But eventually
It too must
Give way

Spring
Pushes back
Bringing light
Warmth 
Growth to
What was once 
Frozen

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