Each step

Each step is one towards the future

each action leads to the next

after the left foot comes the right foot

after winter is spring

after the war is the rejuvenation

after the bad is the good

no matter how long it takes.

Posted in response to the challenge Walk for Peace.

Calico Frost

VT

13 years old

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