Ashes

A poem from "Transit", a collaboration with photographer Tom Darin Liskey

From Transit: A Collaboration for our When and Where

by Kelly Belmonte and Tom Darin Liskey

ASHES
Sometimes the deepest
Truths are on the surface
of a priest’s thumb. Ash

symbol of death, sign
of impermanence, icon
of a simple truth:

Every beginning
has an end, and all stories
that start will stop.

Wisdom lives within
constraint, these opposing truths
that every child knows:

Death will have its day
and sorrow. But here is love
and life wins in the end.

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Image by Tom Darin Liskey
Poem by Kelly Belmonte