What Matters Most: Poems Abou...

By BruceWhealton

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This is a collection of poems inspired by love, loss of love, and other events that began in late July of 200... More

Copyright and Dedication Page
Introduction by Thomas Childs Jr.
Addendum To the Introduction
Chapter 1: To Live Forever
Chapter 2: Poems About My Second Wife
Chapter 3: Watching You...
Chapter 4: A Sense of Awe
Chapter 5: Thoughts on My First Wife And Those Love Poems About Her
Chapter 6: Another Place, Another Time, Another Life
Chapter 7: Where the Love Was
Chapter 8: An Old Love Poem - revised with new insights
Chapter 9: Haiku Collection
Chapter 10: I Wrote a Love Poem Once
Chapter 11: An Infinite Beach
Chapter 12: What Really Matters
Chapter 13: The Whole Story
Chapter 14: Dreamlike Visions
Chapter 15: Coming into Darkness
Chapter 16: Poems about Loss and Trauma
Chapter 17: In the Boat
Chapter 18: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 19: Fugue State
Chapter 20: Fugue State Revisited
Chapter 21: Dreamed I Was A Ghost
Chapter 22: Flashback
Chapter 23: I Want to Believe The Warmth Will Return
Chapter 24: Loss of Self And Identity
Chapter 25: Lost
Chapter 26: Not Even Footprints
Chapter 27: Eternity
Chapter 28: Tears for Grandmother's Passing
Chapter 29: Genealogy
Chapter 30: Waiting for the Dawn
Chapter 31: The Color of Death
Chapter 32: Desolation - A Sign of the Times
Some Christian Inspired Poems
Chapter 33: Mother Protector
Chapter 34: The Weak and the Strong - A Hymn of Trust
Chapter 35: Prayer for Comfort
Chapter 36: In Search of Sophia
Chapter 38: Nothing more did I want
Chapter 39: About My Potential For Faith
Chapter 40: Possessed

Chapter 37: Guide Me, Mom

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By BruceWhealton

I am an infant - your child,
in your arms, God,
nourished at your breast,
warmed by your milk, Mother.
Don't let me go.

As an infant,
I come to you.
Lying back in your arms,
listening to your heart and my heart
together.

Speak to this child.
I don't know what to do.
I'm afraid, I'll make a mistake.
Tell me where to go,
and what to do.
Take my hand,
Guide me.

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