Before And After Poem by Colleen Courtney

Thanks for the note. You have described the situation 'before and after' very well indeed, in a few words. Well done!

The usual understanding of before and after is that of the transformation process from the plain to the beautiful, Your words are the reverse view and yet a second version would be more powerful! Before and After Ugliness - Beauty! Uncaring - Sweet! Hardened - Soft! Unreliable - Trustworthy! Deceitful - Honest! Deceptive - Loyal! Unstrung - Together! Untoward - Comfortable! Crazy - SANE! Colleen Courtney

I have one: humane - animalistic.... at least that's how I became when I made the choice to let the disease win! ...

well crafted and direct, nice write

Well done, I think its quite nice

Short but so reflective of the things that make life such a bright and dark journey.

Contrasted things of life that come before and after.........well depicted in few words.......well done

Lovely Explanations lovely meanings.

And the gap between BEFORE and AFTER is so wide, it shows how damaging drug use is. It's amazing how certain bad habits which promise an artificial paradise, and initially deliver it, lead to the hellish dead-line expressed in the right hand column. I met a writer named Kenneth Boulding at a Science Conference. He gave a speech in which he announced a simple hope: WHEN HUMANITY WISES UP, LET'S HOPE IT DOESN'T DUMB DOWN AGAIN! But generation after generation, we are making the same mistakes. It's time that people start heeding us poets, right?

Somehow I think the mirror is in this, or for this. I like the force you use to write it.