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“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

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Recorded Reading (0:59): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zuaff03zea4ygo0kiable/Healing-Works.mp3?rlkey=0smfual9flm1k0hekwesbel2l&dl=0

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Healing Works

Has something very bad happened to you,
Something that you can never now forget?
Something which brings you sad each day into
Wondering how unto the next you’ll get?

There is a way, friend, to relieve the pain
A way to bring to others benefit
So you and they tranquility both gain
Needs only you commence to offer it

Yes, offer up your pain now good works with
See smiles created from your memories
Relieve the woes of others, simply sith
It is the way your own deep woe to ease

Reach out your fellows’ suffering unto
And let this do its healing work on you

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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