ALL FROM WITH IN
Is there a place? was the question asked
A place for all the pain All the tears and suffering
A place for the difficult
She found it within a poem
With in the ground, in all of nature
She found it... Within the banks of a river
In a river that has gone by so long ago
As she stepped in to bathe
This river wasn't the same
She wasn't the same
This was her time of self discovery
She found the answers to her questions
She found them within herself
The joy has been found
The words still survive in her heart
Our mother's gardens still bloom
She has survived the difficult
She found it all from within
©2009 Thomas Dooley
This poem was inspired by the book The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996) by Alice Walker.
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