There Can Be Brighter Days
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The road is long, and it does not apologise for its stones.
Some cut deep into the soles of your feet;
others wear you down
with their endless, ordinary weight.
Days arrive thick with fog and tremor,
nights echoing old battles
you were certain you had already won.
Healing is not a clean line carved through marble.
It is a stubborn path through bramble and mud,
where you fall more often than you rise,
where the map dissolves in rain
and the compass forgets its work.
Addiction waits in the ditches.
The mind loosens its careful threads.
Homelessness settles in the bones
and does not always leave
when walls finally close around you.
And still—
there are days that shift, almost imperceptibly.
Not perfect days.
Not days that arrive with answers.
But ones that come quietly,
carrying small, improbable mercies:
a meal that tastes like safety,
a conversation that does not flinch,
a morning where the weight lifts
just enough
to let you breathe without thinking about it.
You do not have to chase them.
You do not have to believe in them
for them to exist.
Just keep moving—
one unsteady step,
one honest breath,
one morning that refuses to be skipped.
The rest will come as it does—
uneven, unfinished,
sometimes circling back on itself.
But something in you
will keep learning the shape of forward.
And somewhere along the road,
without ceremony,
without announcement,
you will notice
the light has changed.
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Poetry by Britt Wolfe:
There Can Be Brighter Days is not a promise—it’s a quiet offering of possibility. It lives in the reality of long, uneven healing, where progress is rarely visible and hope doesn’t arrive on command. This poem doesn’t rush past the weight of addiction, instability, or the lingering echoes of survival. Instead, it stays with them, acknowledging how heavy and persistent they can be, while gently making space for something else to exist alongside them. Not certainty, not transformation—but the subtle, often unnoticed moments where things begin, almost imperceptibly, to shift.💚