The document describes waking up to a beautiful morning with a blue sky and light shimmering against distant windows. However, it notes that within each new day lies the "ragged, sharp, destructive shrapnel" of dreams broken by tragedy. When tragedy strikes through acts of violence, it causes tears and shards of light to erupt and fall, carving deep wounds into the hearts of loved ones and communities. The document calls on people to live boldly in love despite fears and rise up each morning without fear, in the spirit of continuing beauty despite hardship.

1. A blue sky,
the shimmer
of light
against
distant
windows,

2. and air crisp and
clean,
in the morning’s
freshness-
we awake to the
infinite beauty of
another day.

3. Yet wrapped within
its unlived moments
of
delight,
laughter,
productivity,
bliss
lay this -
the ragged, sharp,
destructive shrapnel
of another’s broken
dream.

4. The window’s smooth,
consistent panes
erupt like tears
and shards of light –
falling,
falling,
falling –

5. carve their courses on the hearts of lovers,
children, parents, friends, on the hearts of a
nation, the hearts of a world.

6. May we learn
to live boldly
in the love that is
fear’s constant target –
its only
sure
and eternal
defeat.

7. May we rise against a blue sky,
the shimmer of light against
distant windows,

8. And
air,
crisp
and
clean,
in this
morning’s
freshness.
and be not afraid.