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The pain lingers and moves around within,
tightening the gut and drying the lips, wetting the eyes and lumping the throat.
The fear bites and chews, grinding the love from life and spitting it into the pit.
Heaped in the pit are the shards of life - the small empty fragments of love.
What is left?
Can I clothe my soul with a fragment?
The hurt went on and on, until one day it just wasn't there any more.
And in its place was an empty, dead space confined within the walls of past weeping.
The network of cracks fianlly ran together and the ugly pieces of broken life fell slowly to the floor to be trampled underfoot in contempt and rage.
Written in 1970.
Life did get better.
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Thank you for sharing your poems. Very eloquent. Sad that hurt inspires writing, but it is therapeutic. Do you have anymore?
EE
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Thank you. Yes, writing is very therapeutic for me and journaling helps me to focus attention on specific things better. I do have more. I have been writing poems and prose since I was in grade school.
Have you ever read the poetry of Anne Sexton? I love her work, and sadly, she committed suicide during midlife. I was assigned to do a paper on her work in an English Lit class, and have been so grateful ever since to know about her.
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I have never read Anne Sexton, but will look her up next time I am at the library.
EE
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