Awakening Comments

Doris, such a great poem....10++++

Thank you to a fellow poet for bringing me water in a bucket to bathe in, Robert Murray Smith.

Mix with your own kind, trying to please by being someone's mascot is poison to your soul. No one's mediocre or stupid, maybe just a little timid. Understanding and patience bridge islands, cultivate friendship in foreign lands as poems do to open hearts and minds.

Anger, despair, stress, unexpresessed anger, sadness, emotional pain - the body has a way of balling itself up against an intruder, protecting itself against what it perceives as an attack. Like an oyster creating a pearl against a piece of irritant in its soft gel like substance, your body reacts to pain in a protective way. That's it - live healthy by what you eat but in how you handle emotions.