Read This If You Can

[allenlondon]

https://poets.org/poem/quarantine

Close to tears anyway, but this sends me over the edge...

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[Mamyalynne]

* typo - folk.

So glad you are able to keep in touch whilst you are apart Allen - a difficult time.

[jourdain2]

A very beautiful and moving poem. I hope you and Mrs. A. will be together soon - it must be so hard for you both.

[shoota]

Indeed

[Theland]

My wife is from Belfast, and lime the Scousers, the tradition of feeding and sharing deeply ingrained :-)

Yes, the poems reality, like the war poems, makes me think of
how fortunate I am not to suffer like that, and as an emotive personality, the realism does arouse in me an empathy.

Best wishes to you and for your wife's health.

(You say you wished there was someone/thing to pray to.
You may not believe in God but He believes in you. Try it.)

[rowanwitch]

Reminds me of the Victorian sentimental poets, but I appreciate why it would touch someone.
Please Allen, be grateful for your 51 years, consider yourself truly blessed. I would have killed for half that, and you still may have a little more time even if you are separated sometimes

[allenlondon]

Thanks mamya, jourdain, shoota, Theland, rowan, for the thoughts, particularly yours Rowan. I fully take your comment on board, and I’m ashamed for my selfishness. 51 years is indeed something I should be so grateful for.

[rowanwitch]

No it's understandable, together so long even the thought of a final separation must be excruciating. I get it, it nearly finished me after less than 10

[Vagus]

I’ve read the poem about four times now, and it still does nothing for me. I get the sentiment behind it because of the thing it refers to, but the poem itself I find clunky and uninteresting. Not everyone sees things the same way so they?
I do hope your wife responds to the treatment she’s receiving, Alan, and you have her back home again soon.

[allenlondon]

Rowan. 51 years, 9 years, a few months, a couple of years.

All too short, all far too short.

How much longer do you want?

Five minutes. Please. Just a few minutes.

Jesus how I wish I believed in life after death!

I hope your time together was as happy as ours has been.

[rowanwitch]

It was and I don't believe in life after death either

[allenlondon]

Dear Rowan. To say I feel for you sounds so trite, but I can think of no other words.

Goodnight now.

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