EDGES MAGAZINE Issue 23

October 2000

A Gifted Client

Justin was a client with our Reconcile Project. He came to us with a drug Problem. He has now completed his rehabilitation programme and has gone back to live with his partner. He shares his poetry with us.

STAND.

Your hand.
The warmth of your all consuming embrace.
Comforts my inadequacy to face.
Up to the events I have set in place.
Which makes me all that I am.

Man!
If only I’d known -
The side of the coin seldom shown.
On my own - mind blown.
A shadow of who I am.

Damn!
How can this be?
My own eyes no longer recognise me.
And yet I yearn to set this torture free.
I don’t know if I can.

But I am.
The only one able to take the necessary measures.
To guide me through my self-destructive pleasures.
That I may enjoy the most simple of treasures.
Which I can.

Expand.
Upon, to rediscover even the simple feeling.
Gently though - my head needs healing.
NO MORE KNEELING.
I WILL STAND!


BRIDGE

The bridge that I build across wrongs I have done.
Shall have bricks based upon who I have become.
The mortar - my being - explored at great length.
And faith in myself shall be my bridges strength
.
NURTURE.

As I reflect,
Each aspect
Of my being
Is seen.
Can I lose
If I choose
To act upon,
One by one.
The things shown?
Let seeds be grown
Into the tree
That is really me.


CHEERS BILL!

By fearing to attempt
I lose the strength
To find goodness in every day things
I may win (if I apply
My positive side) TRY!
Bathe in the joy I can bring!

(Inspired by W. Shakespeare.)

UNTITLED.
No more
Do I whore
Myself out, or my beliefs
For the relief
Of others
They must take me
As I be
And I am!
And as such
I can
And do see,
More clearly.

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