Thank you so much for posting this poem. It was outragiously beautiful. It hit home with me as well. I do feel like you. Keep sharing if you can and keep up the good work!

Sincerely,
Tracy

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you all know that this was a poem I wrote back in 2008 when things were paticularly tough. No problem with anyone posting this but would appreciate it if they could state that it isn't theirs.

Thanks.

Alison

Hi Ali, I hope all is going well for you. I didn't see where it was posted that it belonged to this person...It just says RSD poem. I don't think that it was claimed to be his. It is a beautiful poem. You did a wonderful job. You are an incredible writer honey...:) I miss seeing your posts.

:hug:Sandy

Dear Jeremy,

You, my friend have a gift. Through your pain you have found a positive creative part of you that you may have never known existed. Keep writing, continue to explore the good things that you can do. On a really bad pain day, I wild out in the kitchen. I did not know I was such an exquisite cook. Actually, my family makes jokes about my pain days because they know when they are served a five course meal that I had a bad day. I use to just lay on the couch and report to each one of them that they were on their own for dinner because I had a bad day! Then I realized my gift, and the joy it brought to the hearts of the ones I love and I challenge myself to use that gift every chance I can.

I have to take my medication, I cannot stand on my feet long so I take a lot of breaks, and my pain is really bad afterwards, however I discovered that whether I cooked or didn’t the pain was about the same and I was able to share something that I can do with my loved ones. Please keep writing, share your gift as you have, you have comforted many hearts today and nothing is forever, we are all just a part of the puzzle that hasn’t been solved yet!

God Bless, and looking forward to reading more.

Jeanie

Sorry Ali. I should have put that it was yours. I came across it one day and thought I would share it with people here. By no means was I claiming it. It is a really good poem and thats why I posted it. So If I made you mad in anyway I am sorry. I just liked it thats all.

Nonetheless, thank you both, Ali for your creative poem and Jeremy for posting it. I am new to the forum, and it really hit the heart.

Thanks

Jeanie

It does help to clarify if you are the original writer of a work or not.

It's always best to give credit to the original author.

Dear Ali -

Please forgive me for not personally writing when I came across across "why won't you understand" when I was catching up on Kate's site. Still cannot believe that you were 13 or so when you wrote that. On one hand it is so beautiful, and one the other hand I never understood how much you endured, so young.

And Jo uses some understatement in her response. I would address it in greater detail were this a situation where we all really knew one and another. (Which, by the way, makes it doubly hard to loose a friend here who you've actually spent some time with in real life.)

Mike

I do just want to add here that NeuroTalk has requirements regarding copyright, where if one copy/pastes *anything* that is not one's own writing it *has* to be with citation ie original author(s) and preferably also a link to where it was copied from. In most cases copy/pasting something in its entirety without the original author's permission is not allowed

In this case Ali has been very gracious about her work being copied here without her permission and without any acknowledgment that she is the author, but
we do also get legal letters from other authors & publications when their research, articles etc are copy/pasted without permission or citation, and recently also got a letter from a poet whose work was copy pasted onto one of our other forums, even tho credit had been given, permission to copy it was not requested.

so this is a good reminder for everyone to please abide by both legal copyright and the common courtesy of always giving correct credit for any work that is not one's own