Dennis-- this latest poem provokes thought---a different take on the usual statement that PD is a "gift". Thank you. >On the day God came to me to set me free, >to calmed my fears and take away my pain, >He asked if I was ready to agree >to lose it all just to be well again. >I said, "who needs to think, just fix my brain, >too long I've waited for this glorious day." >He smiled and put the question once again, >and I replied "for this each day I pray, >please cure me now, there is no other way!" >And I was cured, and everything I've earned >in thirteen years of growing went away >leaving me void of every lesson learned >except that now I know that to be free >the price is more than just the pain in me. > >(c) Dennis Greene 1999 Camilla Hewson Flintermann <[log in to unmask]> http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm "...everywhere I go, I find that a poet has been there before me..." ...Sigmund Freud