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Return to Light by Gordan Struić
Episode 241 • 27th December 2025 • One Poem Only • Maggie Devers
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Return to Light

Gordan Struić

The longest night exhales,
and somewhere beneath the frost
a seed remembers warmth.

I walk through fields
where shadows thin like old thoughts,
each breath a small sunrise.

Inside me,
the dark softens —
becomes room for light again.

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