To My Wife's Step-Father Comments

I love your poem. Pain can be beautiful. I feel your wife's pain not only as I experienced it, but I experienced your pain too. It almost seems to be a cycle in my family. Your poem says everything right.

God this is so heart-renching to read, yet compelling too. My fav Beatles song is Hey Jude and not to be able to wear white t-shirts, well of course that's the top level stuff, the rest, the lack of intimacy, the fact that you have a 'damaged soul' to live with and understand must be doubly hard. I hope your wife realises what a kind man you are and how you can be sensitive to her problems that were caused by someone who should have known better. Abuse of any kind must be abhorred and I cannot begin to imagine what she went through. My blessings are with her. HG: -) xx