A place to heal

We could all use a place to get away for awhile. A retreat in a castle or a hovel will do

A place to heal

         with apologies to Susan David

So should I buy a big bad house
with a secret boudoir and reclining couch
where distraught writers could disappear
for a week or forever til the ink runs clear
and poems dance out the door?

Should I have taken my own advice
and burrowed my way to a village of mice
where a tender youngster could've disappeared
for a week or a summer til thoughts ran clear
and the fear was healed and repaired?

Well I should've,
                         but I didn't
                                        and life's unfair.

© Kåre Enga [164.152] (2007-07-30)

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Original in "A place to heal. Watching the movie outside."