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Mother_Earth
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0 posted 2001-06-25 10:15 AM


When she was little she sat on his knee
He showed her the difference between he and she

When she was older she sat on his knee
But he loved her was always his plea

She could never understand what was wrong
He had given her the words to that song

Not to feel not to hear not to see
This is what he taught her to be

[This message has been edited by Mother_Earth (edited 06-25-2001).]

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Zinsser
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1 posted 2001-06-25 10:39 AM


Ouch... Powerfull
and very tastfully done

           Thank You
         ~~~Connie~~~

illusion
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2 posted 2001-06-25 10:44 AM


Well written poem - Entirely too many children learn these lessons.  
Mother_Earth
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3 posted 2001-06-25 11:12 AM


Zinsser, yes....so much pain.

illusion, and we are supposed to be the humans!  Will it ever end?

Janet Marie
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4 posted 2001-06-25 06:54 PM


this touches me in places deep for many reasons...and you know several of them...
this is also a subject we would like to never have to face...but we must bring this kind of pain out in the open...
Silence allows it to go on...and makes the victim a victim twice...
much impact in a few lines M.E.
only time, self forgiveness and the compassion to teach the child she/he did nothing wrong... can help heal the scars this leaves behind..
tho some wounds never heal all the way.

Mother_Earth
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5 posted 2001-06-25 08:41 PM


Thank you, JM.  I wish I had the magic wand to make all the pain go away.  But it is not to be.  I hope prayer will help the victims.  
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