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With Friends Like These ...
by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner → (All Poetry by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner)
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FICTION, for me. But reality, for far too many -

The words came to me in less than five minutes - if they save one life, the tears cried will have been worth it -

Image (c) 2007, Karla Dorman


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... her white jacketed friends could not save
her --- no, not the doctors, although they
tried to.  They made promises they could

not keep; they kissed her tenderly on
the lips, and carried her over the
threshold of madness into a room

of her own undoing.  They found her,
cold and unmoving, her hand clutching
an empty bottle --- her friends, long gone.

(c) 2008, Karla Dorman (5/23)

 

 


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 Reviews of "With Friends Like These ..."
Reviewed by John Leko
Reviewed on May 27, 2008
...counting cracks in the walls...and with despair...trying to look upward.
excellent write Karla...
John

Reviewed by Jon Willey
Reviewed on May 26, 2008
Their cries for help too often go unnoticed. Frail souls reaching out for help in the wrong places, bottles, pills, and drugs. So many wonderful souls, lost. So sad. God bless JMW

Reviewed on May 25, 2008
All to often this is sad but true. Thank you Karla
You spin quite a storm
God Bless
Tuchy

Reviewed by Jeanette Cooper
Reviewed on May 24, 2008
Glum and gloomy... I imagine this happens sometimes.

Reviewed by Bernice Angoh
Reviewed on May 24, 2008
sad and melancholic. I can almost feel the cold air from the unfriendly room

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on May 24, 2008
Solitude is a very cruel mother...

Georg

Reviewed by Dawn Anderson
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
So sad, Karla.

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
Scary deeply felt! Karla,your few words speak volumes.
Addiction of any kind leads to misery...
et

Reviewed on May 23, 2008
Karla,

This is so sad, an alcoholic dying alone friendless. Such a tragic end.

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
A never ending reality for far too many these days. I pray God will intervene and guide them all down a better chosen path.....

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by Lois Christensen
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
Friends rejected her and did not stay with her at the end. She was too far gone to be helped even with the doctors' as I understood this poem. It is a sad piece of work but should be a warning to others to take heed and support their friends and help them til the end. True friends don't leave either.

Reviewed on May 23, 2008
Oh, Karla...too sad...but we never know what friends may do in despair...behind closed doors. We can only give our friendship and love...and pray. Well told, friend...
Blessings and Love ~~ Micke

Reviewed by Cryssa C
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
sad,sad, sad...

Cryssa

Reviewed by Connie Faust
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
So many wasted lives, so many unshed tears. Powerful writing.

Hugs,
Connie

Reviewed by Rose Rideout
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
Too sad Karla for I hope this is not for real, it sure makes us think. Thyanl you for sharing.

Newfie Hugs are on the way, Rose

Reviewed on May 23, 2008
This is sad, but its the truth for all to many, its a heart breaking reality
God Bless
Michelle~

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
too sad...ed

Reviewed on May 23, 2008
Karla~

O, this one is strong!! No holds barred, in your face writing that grabs the reader and doesn't. let. go! Powerfully penned; brava!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your twin, Karen Lynn. :( >Tears! <

Reviewed by xxxxxxx cccccc (Reader)
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
This is quite some poem. Enduring.

Reviewed by Bonnie May
Reviewed on May 23, 2008
Oh Karla, tears and more tears for that dear soul. I hope it was fiction and you have not lost a friend, So heartbreaking. Love, Bonnie


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