"Winter Wakened in My Heart
On being diagnosed with heart failure.
After the 14th century lyric, 'Wynter Wakeneth Al My Care.'
Winter wakened in my heart,
and its rhythm fell apart.
How much longer can I chart
the years I've left to live and breathe
as leaves turn green, then brown?
All seasons end in grief,
and yet they still must branch and flow,
Whether I'm here or gone below,
the sun will burn, the wind will blow
another hundred years or more,
though winter grows much colder,
and spring contains no cure.
All my dreams at once seem thwarted,
and my faith is long departed;
I see the end of all I’ve started—
my too-small measure on this earth.
I pray the seasons’ passage
my life may yet preserve."
—Lisa Barnett in March 2026 Persons of Interest
Did you know that George Santayana has a verse drama about Lucifer being gay for Hermes in space?
"The whale dissolved the man but not the wound the man was organized around" —@barnes7 via
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