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towards the end

I’m trying to see the value in what I’ve lost

not in the loss not in that which is lost but in the value of me now

me without the strengths I have lost

me with the weaknesses that I must become

and the strengths to be all of that and all of this all of what I am

in spite of and because of

all that I have lost.

published in Midcoast Poetry Journal, Vol. 2  (Amazon)

Thomaston, Maine — April 19, 2016, 7:03 a.m.

© 2016, Bill Eberle