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The Healing Poems

the first word on courage

I’ve written many poems
but not a single one
mentions the word “courage,”
and that’s because I have none.

I do what I am told
by guilt and by fear
which are so very loud
that my voice — I can’t hear.


LILIANA KOHANN
©Artpeace 2002

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