FROM A CHANCE MEETING. WHY SOME MAY BE ASKING. DID I NOT STOP MY TEXT? 'COS I WAS REACHING OUT TO A FRIEND SHE WAS ALSO GETTING A KICKING FROM LIFE.


IDENTICAL TWIN's - BOTH SELF HARM - WHY?

last Friday , I called in to the free cafe,

Asked what I'd like , '' coffy , corn beef ,

penguin please'', I asked for , duly were given,

When sat down at a table , put suger in to my cup

of coffy , unwrapped my corn beef roll,

Took out my mobile, begane a text to send to my friend,

A girl I say a girl more a teenager , At a guess, not slim

bouldering on the thin , maybe anorexic ,

She began to talk , but I was almost at the end of my text,

I tryde to type in my text , yet show I was listening to her,

When I noticed her left arm , almost covered in healed scars ,

She was a self harmer , I know she wonted , needed to talk,

Just one or two more words , love , and I'll be with you,

I wished she had read that in my smile, my eyes ,

But as I clicked and sent , in came her sister , twins , no dowt, also to slim,

I could see her right arm , same as her twin , cuts , healed ,

How I thort of what paine had course them to infilckt such paine,

Upon them self's , maybe this Friday I will see them again and maybe

I can listen , to one or both , show I care , that they matter, to me.

By open my ears , listening , open mind , open hart.


Ken D Williams

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Written on 2007-08-09 at 21:12

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You're such a kind heart, Ken...
2013-05-24


Leovinus
The world needs more people who will take the time to listen. Maybe then these young people will not feel such a need to cry out in such silence.
Thank you, Ken
2007-08-11


Stan Cooper The PoetBay support member heart!
Ken...this poem beautifully tells me something I already knew, and that is you are a good person with great empathy

your friend... Stan
2007-08-10