Emotional Thirst Poem by Margaret Alice

People in pain
describing situations
without considering
we don’t want such

Intelligence

Caught in a spell
compelled to tell
their tragic stories
to re-experience

Powerlessness

Repeating histories
for transient relief but
missing the comfort of
lasting, healing

Empowerment

Dying from thirst
symbolical of
emotional thirst
expressed in

Restlessness

Forever enduring
emotional wounds in
Coleridge’s Curse of
The Ancient Mariner


Stephanie Dowrick “The Universal Heart” Michael
Joseph – Penguin 2000, pages 56 & 57