I Send This To You and the Universe
It was a very long time
When I was young living
With a cold uncaring family and man
Working hard feeling the darkness moving in
With a mentally half brother, another a Viet Nam vet
A father who was just barely there,
A mother who did not care
And I found someone in San Francisco
A therapist, a man well known
Dealing with violence and crime
In our country and others
But he still listened to me
Unsure that I married a man
Who I began to suspect
Was neither loving or kind
And slowly I knew my family
Was truly the same
And with each week
He listened and I talked
In the presence of such a kind
Knowing man who spent his time
Dealing with sad sick events and people
Difficult places complex deaths and police
Sitting with those who needed health
And with time I knew that those
People angry and cold were my family too
In time I finally had to leave for work
Going to the south, saying farewell
I am not sure I left him knowing how
Good he had been to me and if I thanked
Him as I should, now he is gone,
I knew what an incredible man he had been
Gone now from illness
Still I wanted to say into the sky
That you had helped me and let
Me begin to connect and grow with
Another therapist later who helped me too
Now I am sending from my heart
This whisper to the universe and you
A very special thank you!
Copyright © Linda Milgate | Year Posted 2023
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