Thank you so much Martin. I do subscribe to the view that, as poets, it helps immensely when a poem's focus is close to one's heart and one the poet has experienced. Our work gains clarity and empathy thereby, and hopefully communicates a personal experience in ways readers can process from their own lives.

Best wishes,
Chris

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Hi Leon,

I'm so pleased to hear that I was able to help you in a small way at such a time.

All the very best for the future,
Chris

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Hi David,
Thank you sincerely. My twin brother (Paul) is fully recovered and back to good health. Crises such as this one seem to bring forward things about one's self that we are often only dimly aware of.

Cheers,

Chris

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As has been said this is a beautiful and heartfelt piece.

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very very moving Chris.

My thanks also for sharing and inspiring me to write one on behalf of my long lost (special needs) sister about whom
I have only a few days ago been given the news by the Salvation Army people finding service that she has passed away a year ago.

The consolation is that she is at peace and my mind can now stop running riot about her.

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That's beautifully intimate Chris, thank you for sharing it

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