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| Reviewed by Merrill Vaughan |
8/28/2003 |
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Teresa and to all who read this poem and the other poems, I accept full, unconditional responsibility for this action I caused you to take.
Merrill A. "Butch" Vaughan
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| Reviewed by Floreann Cawley |
8/26/2003 |
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| very sad Peace to you..Floreann |
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| Reviewed by Gaye Dale (Reader) |
8/26/2003 |
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I tried to send this as a message, but it wouldn't work, sorry...
After reading your poems which are such a cry of the heart, I hesitate to ‘review’ them for fear of pressing too hard on something that hurts… But I must guess that you want and need our comments, to have shared them with us…
How can we love someone else it we first do not know how to love ourselves? We cannot give out of an empty cup. If we do not know how, then we must learn, not just for our own sakes, but for the sake of everyone whose lives we touch. It helps to learn from someone else who has learned to do it well.
This kind of wound behaves so much like a physical one. It will take time to heal and at the beginning is very intense. But what if it is a more serious injury? Can we get by on our own? What if we have worried it and the infection of self-pity has made us feverish with delirium and confusion? It would be foolish to ignore it – resulting in some serious debilitation, no, instead we go to a professional who is qualified to help us and who has much experience in treating this kind of injury. Only you know how bad this pain and wound is… Will a bandaid, (such as writing about it until we can get it out of our system) be enough because it is on the surface? Or is it deep and in need of some serious and urgent attention?
Teresa, keep writing. There are times and seasons for everything and this will pass. You cannot make his choices for him but you can make the right choices for you and you will grow stronger.
Soldier on...
With heartfelt empathy
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