If you have to protect yourself
then you have created the enemy
If you have to love yourself
then you turned away all who could love
you
If you have to feed yourself
then you have taken food from others
If you have to go somewhere
then you have never invited enough
people to visit you
If you feel surrounded by uneducated
people
then you have never told them what you
know
If you have no one to touch
it is because you have refused to be
touched
If you cry when you are lonely
it is because you never dried the tears
of lonely others
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2013 by Barry G. Wick all rights reserved
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I like this!
You met me last week at the election; I was one of the pollworkers at the UI hygenics lab and you told us that you are a poet. You certainly are! I have read the last dozen or so poems that you have posted, and hope to look further back for some more. I've added myself to your "followers" so I will see your new postings.
A couple of other poems that I especially liked were about teachers/friends: "As close as I am to you" and "We go".
I keep a blog; it is mostly about church music and Christianity and may be of minimal interest (for you are coming from a very different direction), but for what it is worth, it is at castanea-d.blogspot.com
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