Edwin Hofert Poet Rhyme

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Poetry Saving Me

Poetry Saving Me

Through darker days and darker ways
if you could look you'd see.
Through a darker time and words of rhyme
there's poetry saving me.

Taking me and breaking me
at times I needed broken.
Bending me and mending me
words written now are spoken.

Troubles that once came my way
nowhere in my control.
Like a hero in some movie
poetry blessed my soul.

The rest of me the best of me
forgotten once neglected.
 Deep inside I cannot hide
what poetry protected.

The part of me the heart of me
so tested over time.
Freeing me for being me
the words I find that rhyme.

Through darker days I lost my way
there were dreams not meant to be.
Still today I'm pleased to say
there's poetry saving me.

Edwin C Hofert

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Judy Konos July 11, 2015 at 8:27 AM Very good...now if you can get that poetry to cook and clean house send it over...Today a party and I need to be saved swiftly!

Jan Allison July 9, 2015 at 5:31 PM I can say it has saved me too Edwin if I hadn't started writing after my husband's cancer surgery and then had dad's terminal cancer I don't think I would have got through the most traumatic time of my life:-) hugs jan xx