Heart’s temple paints with light, finding courage in small things; a slap on the back, warmth pressed between honest hands. Each time pulse rises on fingertips of hope heartache breaks the plane of our efforts. So many sleep and dream of waking to forgiveness in a sunrise while fate echoes ancient and forgotten tragedies. Long shadows of our times. Mistrust hardens the veins of our cities where numbing silences walk through hope’s ashes. Winter creeps on heavy with wounds hea