Ache by Scarlett Ward

 

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I tagged Sunflower, I can’t help myself, and To ache it to – but the collection as a whole has a sadness, a wrestling with endurance of pain – that to go on, in the pain and sorrow, is to how we get through life, you are not cured from depression but at times live more successfully with it – from Sunflower “There is something / to be celebrated … / when, against all the odds, you bloomed, / and I didn’t kill myself.”

Plus from poems at the back from others Sallyanne Rock’s On the bypass and Rebecca Lockwood’s Supper – the final stanza of which is:

“…

And from all of this

All I have learnt

Is how lucky you are

If the only time

You feel lonely

Is when you are

Alone.”