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Seeing The Path

November 7, 2022

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Coffee House Writers / Aviva Derenowski

The flower was crumbling moment by moment.
My wrinkles got deeper year after year,
And yet,
my husband saw nothing but beauty.

My child missed the target again and again,
Despair crawled up her face.
All I saw
was her determination to succeed.

God showed me a torn, corrupted world
full of anguish and despair.
I saw the path to love,
by accepting each other as One.

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Aviva Derenowski

Aviva Derenowski lives in Staten Island, New York. She practices Vipassana meditation for an hour twice daily. She published three books, including Talking to my mother - 99 anecdotes and edited the anthology Celebrating Our Mothers. Aviva published poems in Ariel Chart, Love & Spine Fiction Showcase, and Literary Yard; short fiction in Synchronized Chaos; and non-fiction in Communities.