What Is Life
What Is Life
- by Lucy Hinton, 2007
What is freedom
if not the opportunity
to carry the most precious burden
of belonging
What is love
if not the chance
to surrender
open and naked
to my beloved
What is hope
if not the crack
through which light
thaws frozen flesh
returning life-blood
and the pain
of caring
And what is life
if not a grand explosion of passionate wonder
with tears and soil and stars and great winds
to weave us all together?