I watched a program about molestation
and sexual abuse today,
it made me think of - well - you.
You came into my life like
a wind spring 2005,
like a storm rather
and turned my life upside down.
For you I abandoned my mum and friends,
for you I abandoned principles and sanity,
all for the love I thought you gave.
Late winter or rather early spring 2006,
you took my breath away
by abandoning me,
you said "I don't love you".
I had nothing else to care about
but I rebuilt myself just in time for you
to demolish my walls again.
That whole spring we played
cat and mouse
and you forced me to show you
I loved you more than she d
When my family took our annual vacation to Orange Beach in Alabama this week, we were astounded by the change. The once-snowy sand is now brown, and when the waves retreat, bold coppery arcs of oil remain. By some chance of luck there is not enough oil in the water to be readily visible on top, not enough to severely damage our avian life, but in the shallows the whitecaps foam brown. For the first time in a lifetime of forgetting normal life at our beach, double red flags fly as far as one can look down the shore, and infinite miles farther. For the first time in a lifetime of Frisbee on the sand, we ran to the waves to cool down, but were a