After an End

After an End

After an end, the road begins again,

A quiet step where the old fire slept,

Ash in the wind, memory breathing slow,

Who knows what rises from a closing door?

The night once spoke in a low dark tongue,

It told of loss, of shadows on the stair,

Yet in the hush a small light gathered,

Soft as a promise no storm could break.

I walked through hours that would not bend,

Cold rooms of thought, long turning days,

Still the heart kept one stubborn beat,

Asking the dark, what comes after this?

After an end, the sky leans open,

Not loud, not bright, but steady and wide,

A path appears where none once stood,

And hope returns without a sound.

So let the ending fall behind,

Let dust settle where tears once lay,

For every last page ever written

Waits for the hand that begins again.

The story breathes where silence lived,

A new word forming in patient air,

After an end, the soul remembers,

Nothing true is ever finished.

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