I’m taking a rest today. I like this better than anything I would have written. Came across it on Sunday in, you guessed it, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper. I hope you get as much out of it as I have, we’ve all been there. Cleo Wade is a poet, artist and speaker, with a new book out, “Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom For a Better Life.”
the way out and the way forward
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I loved myself
through what I had
been through
this is how
I stayed afloat
even when
life’s waters
raised above my head
and when I needed
someone to trust
this is how I knew
which hands
were helping hands
and which
were hurting hands
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Cleo Wade
365 And Counting 