FORWARD (1990)

A pool of knowledge
  lays beneath the 
	Murky darkness
  of Life's trials,
While light shines
   forth through
eyes once clouded
	  by tears.
Peace rests in the
   soft folds of
 a Heart that was
	once Stone, 
as Beautiful features 
  emerge from clay
  that is molded
	by the hand
	  of hardship.

A shoot breaks
 through the ground
as the seed of learning
 receives the nourishment
	of Time,
For Growth always comes
   after the Storm
   has watered the 
	Soil;
And a soul that sits
   yearning for 
	company,
 finds it once
   she stands
and takes a step
	Forward.