Perhaps this poem, and remembering the words, savouring the meaning, will allow me to be able to find the “form and shape” in the pain that that has flowed through my life. Each of these expressions of life has a form and when I can nurture the experience, the expression rather than obliterating, “getting over”, I am able to bring myself into the flow of life and experience. The “WISDOM” that can be found in every form of the experience of life, pain and happiness, rejection and acceptance, peace and chaos. There is something in me that bursts with joy, power, strength and courage when I can shift my mind to seeing the “WISDOM” that can be found in experience. The profound effect of this poem is the affirmation in seeing the natural flow of life, the good and the bad. To the told “get over it” has enraged me even more viscerally than being told there is a cure for what I feel and experience. To be told there is a “cure” for trauma, hurt and grief, has always enraged me. The emotions, memories and visions of my life that this poem evoked have been unnerving and at the same time liberating and strengthening. I the past couple of hours I have read this poem over and over again. Today this poem had a profound effect on me. I have had no contact with Mark other than the poems he posts on social media.
This poem was posted by, Mark Fleming, a colleague who I met and worked with many years ago.
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