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From Earth to Sun: A Single Mother’s Bloom - Every scar a root, every day a bloom.
She planted herself in hard ground, where shadows lingered and rain rarely fell—raising her children and rebuilding her world all on her own. These poems trace her journey from the heavy earth of hardship, betrayal, and quiet grief, all…
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…clouds drift and darken, cool the air to husk. Long shadows stretch and cling where I have grown, trace every line and bend I’ve ever known. They follow up from roots to golden head, whispering of the things I’ve had to dread — of lonely nights, of promises unkept, of all the tears I silently have wept. But shadows only show where sunlight falls; they do not break the stem or scale its walls. I learn to lean, to turn, to shift my place, let light return and warm my upturned face. What falls behind cannot outshine the gold — I rise above the stories that were told. With every shadow, stronger still I stand, rooted deep in this familiar land.