VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS.
Victims rightly feel aggrieved
about the traumas they’ve received,
so, they may want to rant and vent
‘till all their angst is out and spent.
I believe that there’s a skill
to listen when people are ill,
and educe their feelings so (draw out)
there’s space for new feelings to grow.
Whilst listening to their story-lines,
their painful and upsetting whines,
I cannot help but empathise
and very often sympathise.
Victims of traumatic times
can then be captured in my rhymes,
for this is when their minds are fraught
so this is when they need support.
A rhyme is logical and brief,
and can help contain the grief,
for sometimes grief is sine qua non, (necessary)
essential so folks may move on.
As and when the healing works
and the angst no longer lurks,
victims may then metamorphose
into survivors I suppose.
Often survivors will not need
confidants who will take heed,
for they may often view that role
as something that they now control.
Survivors of these traumas will
start to develop their own skill
of listening to themselves and so
help other folk to learn and grow.
Be Withers 2022
Victims rightly feel aggrieved
about the traumas they’ve received,
so, they may want to rant and vent
‘till all their angst is out and spent.
I believe that there’s a skill
to listen when people are ill,
and educe their feelings so (draw out)
there’s space for new feelings to grow.
Whilst listening to their story-lines,
their painful and upsetting whines,
I cannot help but empathise
and very often sympathise.
Victims of traumatic times
can then be captured in my rhymes,
for this is when their minds are fraught
so this is when they need support.
A rhyme is logical and brief,
and can help contain the grief,
for sometimes grief is sine qua non, (necessary)
essential so folks may move on.
As and when the healing works
and the angst no longer lurks,
victims may then metamorphose
into survivors I suppose.
Often survivors will not need
confidants who will take heed,
for they may often view that role
as something that they now control.
Survivors of these traumas will
start to develop their own skill
of listening to themselves and so
help other folk to learn and grow.
Be Withers 2022
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