Hear me
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the poem as
an MP3 file.
Watch me
read
the poem as
a YouTube video.
Video Music:
Peace Within.
By Peter Rudenko.
Performed
by Peter Rudenko
at the
Free Music Archive
under an Attribution
license.
Friends are where one offloads
what
One cannot bear alone --
Spoiled goods that jam the gut,
Sorrows turned to stone.
Why does the act of telling friends
One's troubles ease one's pain?
Nothing changes, nothing ends,
Yet one can cope again.
It's not that one is looking for
Advice or sympathy.
One has pent-up words to pour
Into reality.
A friend is like a field on which
Such feelings can find air.
The point is not to say too much,
But simply to be there.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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