Endless view
Long horizon
No one to talk to
Nor set your eyes on
Feeling sad
Needing to talk
Asked to go home
Sent for a walk
Met a crisis
Relocate
No discussion
Vegetate
Then the big one
Talking therapy
All came out
Self authority
Still long struggle
Full of fear
Don’t want to lose
What I hold dear
Crunch time came
Face to face
What will I do?
I found my place
Brian Fahy
22 March 2022
+ Julia Samuels is a psychotherapist. A quote from her in the Guardian today – Nothing can be fixed unless it is faced. I have found this to be true. The trouble often is that we are frightened to face something because we fear what we find may upset us too much. It took me a long time to leave priesthood even after counselling had helped me achieve self-authority. I feared facing the thought that I might lose Margaret and Michael, and remain in priesthood. A day came, thanks to a visitation, when I had to decide what am I going to do. I spent nine days in Ireland, visiting my aged mother, and simply being quiet and still. There were no words left to speak. I just faced into the issue. I came back to England and that night it was as if a huge curtain suddenly drew back and my path into a new future was there, and open to me.
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