Turning: Words Heard from Within

I will be rushing to my local independent book store next week to get this 1994 book I just learned of. Yes, just a snippet of a poem can move me enough to do so!

Here's an offering that I've been savoring this week from author Claire Blatchford:

The other side of sorrow is joy.
When you can raise your sorrow
above bitterness, above disappointment, above pain,
to the light --
a birth occurs.
In heaven the angels rejoice.
Those who have died are fed.
On earth the very soul is made new.