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separation i frequent neither harrow
nor haunt her heart resides,
my undivided sorrow
unto this page confides;
bereft of tears in mourning
i awake to dreams of her,
the theft of years alluring,
the plans we made deferred;
prescience of her departure
makes no less my loss,
her absence growing farther
divides my soul across.
I lived through a similar
I lived through a similar time of terror in 1978 and again in 1981-83. The first was just a brief dress rehearsal for the second, and I still have nightmares about them both.
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You know, I've had time to
You know, I've had time to process, writing helps a lot, and I know that this will all turn out for my good in the end.
"Paper is patient." - Anne Frank
Yes it does, and I have
Yes it does, and I have found---when I am being brutally candid with myself---that those two periods produce insights that I might not have acquired any other way. When I was young, and when I was experiencing them first-hand, they did not seem like insights; just more terrors. But now, with a perspective of over forty years, I can place them in a more overall context.
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