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Talking To Calm
Your best medicine,
like Aunt Bea, was no pills
no machines,
no poisons on a masquerade.
Best was when the doctor
said, "Take two conversations
and call me when
sitting by the lake with coffee in a copper cup."
But family are fire
and company the kindling
for the blaze that bathes the walls
in light and warmth.
Pain has only partial power
passion keeps it's hounds at bay
joy sometimes obliterates
sadness sweeps its thorns away
and laughter? Only laughter...
laughter ushers us along the way
The real enemy is emptiness
a cave of aches with unkno...