Miracles

Miracles are not
Snap your fingers and
Life is better
Sickness is healed
Happiness is restored

Miracles are

You are still alive
When you feel dead

Miracles are

One more idea
When the idea well is dry

Miracles are

Not dying from
Exhaustion or hopelessness

Miracles are

Having any shred of faith left
When all you have known
Is gone

Miracles are

A spark of hope
In the darkness of odds
That don’t hold much promise

Miracles are

The single breath you get to take
When you burst to the surface for air
Just before going under again

Miracles are

Temporary relief from pain
A little company on a lonely road

Miracles are

Improving more than people thought
Doing better but not doing well
Being okay though okay is not whole

Miracles are

Small breaks of laughter
That tell the pain to
Go to hell

Miracles are

Monday picnics
Pretty skies and
Inspiring teabags

Miracles are

That anyone is left in your life
When you’ve spent them all up
With your pain

Miracles are

Different than happy endings
Or resolution
Or enough for the long haul

Miracles are

Nothing like
I thought
They were

Miracles are

A damn lot
Of work