"WORLDS APART BUT I FELT YOUR PAIN"

I wanted to put my arms around you
comfort you
but they could not reach.

There were too many generations
language
and distance
in the way.

There were many things
I wanted to tell you...

That you and I have traveled
down many of the same roads
encountered many of the same demons
and I've survived
and you can too...

but couldn't.

Because there were
too many years

distance
and worlds
in the way.

(These words are about a teenage girl
who was in the hospital in a war-torn country.
She was there, because she saw her 10 yr
old brother blown to pieces by a bomb.
I saw this on the evening news and
her father was trying to comfort her).

Copyright © 2001 T. J. Daniels

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