Memories Pathways Comments

This is a very special insight: you are invoking your youth or earlier when you were not carrying a sorrow-load as you do now, and instead of making you bitter, the specter of the earlier YOU gives the present YOU a sense of acceptance. This is almost miraculous, Roseann: it's as if you gave a gift to yourself. Is this focus and balance perhaps a gift from heaven as well? This poem is not cast as a prayer but has it not had the effect of a prayer answered?