Nick Read » despair http://www.nickread.co.uk Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:29:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sixty-four! http://www.nickread.co.uk/poems/2009/07/sixty-four/ http://www.nickread.co.uk/poems/2009/07/sixty-four/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:29:30 +0000 Nick Read http://www.nickread.co.uk/?p=761
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    • ]]>      Arriving at the watershed

     between regret and despair,

    when fate replaces hope

    and is companioned by fear,

    the mind fixes on  

    the moment of being,  

    belonging,     

    not to compete

    but to repair,

    less an excursion  

    as a better way home.    

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