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It's Hard to Believe


It's hard to believe that wholeness is a possibility

When pieces of life have been cut dead, used in places not meant to be and
discarded who knows where

Justified in the name of god…for all that is holy…
to insure that which is right, just and good



It is hard to imagine that cleansing can ever come

From the internal and external blood stains embedded in the body, lined in the
brain, trapping spirit from hopeful flight

Justified in the name of god…for all that is holy…
to insure that which is right, just and good


It is hard to think that healing can happen

When the smells, tastes, sounds and visions of violence and death live within

And the force of survival unreasonably, and not unoften, push on without
conscious desire


Maybe only when the spirit returns to where it began
will it know if it learned what it had come to learn and will it truly be cleansed and
whole,
able to rest in an unstained bed
wrapped in blankets of love, peace and hope

----Kathleen M. Dwyer

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