To Dance While the Ground Trembles

✍🏽 Notes Toward a Future Nr. 1

*Introducing: Notes Toward a Future
Just a little series of poems I’ll be sharing now and then—scraps of feeling, memory, and imagination.
Fragments of what we carry. Whispers of what we might build.
Hope they find you gently.

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I am holding steady—

as the world breaks and mends our hearts

in equal measure.

Each headline carves a fresh wound,

each small kindness, a thread pulling tight

the torn edges. And still—we claimed

our small victory in this patchwork city,

struck a match against the dark.

There is tenderness in survival,

defiance braided through joy.

To dance while the ground trembles

beneath us is not denial—

it is devotion

to the stubborn life still pushing

green through sidewalk cracks.

So I steady myself—

not untouched,

but unyielding—

rooted in the rhythm

of a world that fractures

and forgives

at once.