Sanctuary by Lori Yamamoto

### Part I: The Seed (The Memory) Back porch, wheelchair, brother’s laughter in the air, ground brown, brittle, song they came to share. ### Part II: The First Unfolding (The Truth) Truth hung in the air, a quiet, heavy thing, field parched, lonely, learning how to heal, slowly. ### Part III: The Second Unfolding (The Transformation) They watered the field, each drop a tear of hope, for a parched, lonely field, at the end of its rope. ### Part IV: The Convergence (The Renewal) Fixed the goal post, the one we used to know, stood on crutches, watching the grass grow. ### Part V: The Coda (The Realization) Girl who ran is a ghost, a memory, a past, watching the field come to life, felt my heart grow vast. The sea took something, gave something new, a home grows with you, simple, lovely, true.