Encore

Placing anyone on a pedestal, in time, leads nowhere. Events repeat one another like droplets of rain. Nonetheless, its power is never acknowledged. Pain is said to be the greatest uniter. Yet, there is no point in glorifying misery. To wallow in your own self-pity leads nowhere.

Yet again, I saw someone cry.
Not a princess, just a human.
In their smile, our smile, lies our humanity.

Pain and rain are powerful, don't forget that. But so is our common desire for the sun that comes after it.

hope truly is "the thing with wings that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words"