Past the filth of guilt

Through the grime the grit

The soot the shit

Where it seemed perseverance failed

It was kindness that prevailed

Dissolved the mirage

Lifted the fog

Burned up the bog

Cleared a path

Paved a way

In the NOW

The jagged cliff

The teetering tip

The precipices

That I’ve always known

Is now simply the threshold

Of an open door

To so much more