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Pain is a lonely island
      desolate
     barren
      battered by winds of anguished torment

         Visited only by forlorn castaways
            flung forcefully...unwillingly
         torn and battered
        onto its rocky shore

       No tropical paradise
       nor fertile oasis
      not a refuge
       nor calm and placid bay

       A hellspot of misery
       unimaginable
      to one fortunate enough
         to have eluded it's jagged coastline

    Ah...but there in the distance
  struggling against all odds
bravely battling onward
  through gentle waves of hope
  like a flickering light on a dark horizon
a ship of healing
valiantly wends its way
   offering rescue
   to the abandoned
   the weary and worn

With sails unfurled by the gentle breezes of hope  it glides across calm waters
into a sunset of soothing peace

a haven of serenity

Copyright by Barbara A. Duits


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