Guy, what a gift you present in your feedback, always so thoughtful and well presented.

I thought about the poem getting lost in the beat and yet I felt that that in itself was part of the ultimate forgiving of the piece which is found in the last stanza. It's a tough, dark ditty and one that needed to be exhumed, to let the poison out is to heal and nothing serves such a high purpose as poetry (for me).

All said, I am grateful for every hardship, every time my feathers were ruffled, every tear, or laugh to cover my terror, all of it. Not just for the healing that happens when the words come forth and are polished shiny.

The Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness, Ho'oponopono, is very strong medicine that I use and it really, truly, shifts the energies(for me)

Thank you.

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