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 This is an area where we can share writing that has helped us.  Please go to the forum and post a poem, piece of prose or writing which could be helpful to others.  We will then be able to put them on this part of the website.  Thanks  This is an area where we can share writing that has helped us.  Please go to the forum and post a poem, piece of prose or writing which could be helpful to others.  We will then be able to put them on this part of the website.  Thanks 
  
-==You cannot hurry death==+===You cannot hurry death===
  
 +-----
 You cannot hurry death You cannot hurry death
 +
 It has its own time It has its own time
 +
 Its own season Its own season
  
-Even when life is  +----- 
-thin, frail and achingly hard+ 
 +Even when life is thin, frail and achingly hard 
 You cannot hurry death. You cannot hurry death.
 +
 +-----
  
 Thin skeletal man Thin skeletal man
 +
 Just a breath in a sheath Just a breath in a sheath
 +
 of skin and bones of skin and bones
 +
 +-----
  
 But still that breath continues But still that breath continues
 +
 In and out In and out
 +
 Measuring the last moments Measuring the last moments
 +
 of life and being of life and being
 +
 +
 +-----
 +
  
 How do we free ourselves  How do we free ourselves 
-from our painful caresses when+ 
 +from our painful carcasses when 
 they are exhausted and spent? they are exhausted and spent?
 +
 +
 +-----
 +
  
 The soul valiantly The soul valiantly
-Showing glimmers of itself, like + 
-a spark of light +Showing glimmers of itself,  
 + 
 +like a spark of light  
 through a dense gorse bush of redundant bones. through a dense gorse bush of redundant bones.
 +
 +-----
  
 How the soul must long to be free How the soul must long to be free
 +
 To rise up and fly again To rise up and fly again
 +
 Unencumbered by the trappings of an Unencumbered by the trappings of an
 +
 ancient body ancient body
  
 +-----
 And yet there is a deep affection for And yet there is a deep affection for
 +
 being here in this world being here in this world
 +
 A place we know A place we know
 +
 People whose lives have touched us and People whose lives have touched us and
 +
 who we have touched who we have touched
 +
 +-----
  
 At some stage the call to freedom At some stage the call to freedom
 +
 Must be heard and not resisted Must be heard and not resisted
  
 +
 +-----
 At some stage the shackles of the body can be At some stage the shackles of the body can be
 +
 sloughed off sloughed off
 +
 Like a snake losing its skin - Like a snake losing its skin -
 +
 too small too small
 +
 too itchy too itchy
 +
 and and
 +
 not fit for purpose not fit for purpose
 +
 anymore anymore
  
 +-----
 Then when one abandons Then when one abandons
 +
 the thin thread of hope  the thin thread of hope 
-that binds the soul 
  
 +that bind the soul
 +
 +-----
 Only then can the future Only then can the future
 +
 Whatever that might be Whatever that might be
 +
 Open and blossom Open and blossom
  
 +-----
 Maxine Green Maxine Green
  
  
-==There is no need – ode to a dying man==+----- 
 +===There is no need – ode to a dying man=== 
  
 There is no need There is no need
 +
 to say the words to say the words
 +
 The heart beat is enough The heart beat is enough
 +
 +-----
  
 There is no need to mend the future There is no need to mend the future
 +
 The past was ample The past was ample
 +
 and enough and enough
  
 +-----
 There is no need to press the flesh There is no need to press the flesh
 +
 When the souls beat together  When the souls beat together 
 +
 that is enough that is enough
  
-There is not need when the beat of the+----- 
 +There is not need, when the beat of the 
 soul is soul is
 +
 loud loud
 +
 and clear and clear
 +
 There is no need…… There is no need……
 +
 it is enough it is enough
  
 +
 +-----
 Maxine Green Maxine Green