Gillian Commerford Poems

I can see you in my mind's eye
warmer than a photograph
leading me to Boulders Beach
along the Bridle Path.
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Sometimes I look at life
and wonder what's the meaning
I strip away the layers
till my fingers lose all feeling
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God's inside me
waiting
to set me free
but the devil says
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I am not the good person
you thought I was
I am not even the good person
I thought I was-
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I spend my time writing poems
and thinking about Polar Bears
I ponder on the meaning of "normal"
and the meaning of "success
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Free your body and soul
from the twining and untwining
of desire and thought
being in stillness
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Be kind to yourself
Be kind to others
Be kind to the earth you walk on -
What more religion do you want?
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Numbers mean nothing
6 million or 8 million
who knows?
If I shed a single tear
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Our lives stutter
beneath the stammering of tongues
the hammering
of blood and bone and muscle
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