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On occasion
a mushroom will shoulder
through asphalt.
Like an occassional blade of grass
casts aside a slab of stone and rises --
not unlike the stories of Jesus.
And it is every bit as good a story
and worth celebrating,
even though they never heard of Jesus
and are only doing what the living do
when moving towards the light,
against desperate odds.