Barbara Haskell Poems

Sitting on the back steps
and I can see God's vast landscape,
blanketed with never ending trees.
I can hear a car in daylight,
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Every nerve, every fiber of my being,
is consumed with pain.
Oh, how I would welcome death,
how merciful to me,
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You want me to trust-
trust that you'll be there for me,
that we could have a life together, a home
and I'll be safe and sound.
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Anger comes flying in,
as if on the wings of a jet,
out of control, nose-diving,
straight into my heart.
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I was living my life, I had two children,
I'd been a wife.
I worked and played, had such zest,
when, suddenly, one day, it started to come apart,
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It comes on every night,
common sense takes flight.
I don't want to go,
it scares me so!
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Sand dunes, huge waves,
palm trees swaying in the breeze.
Navy ships out to sea, sailboats closer in,
The sun is beaming down its rays,
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Degeneration
of a part of the body,
has such a degenerative action
on the spirit, the soul,
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