To - Become - Selfreliant Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

If rejection comes
from a parent,
then the sense
of rejection is
all consuming,

more painful
than the pangs
of hunger which
assail the body
as it assails the mind.

Outside of that
type of rejection,
rejection from
others pales into
insignificance.

We can use it to
become self reliant,
depending on
nobody for anything.

It can make us
stronger than we are.


(Written from thecomments of the great poetess Marie Shine of Listowel, Ireland)