Your Paradise            The struggle of your life is your paradise.                                                       — EIDO-ROSHI   Go ahead — try telling that to a grieving mother whose struggle has been a song of broken hope — tell her this is her heaven.   Tell it to the schoolboy who has lost his heart to broken dreams and can’t believe he’ll dream again, tell him this is the cost   of love. Tell it to a broken soul longing to be less than alive, just a ghost. Go ahead, tell them — tell them how they’re wrong.     © Michael Fleming Williamsville, Vermont January 2024