Thanks to Rita for sharing, and to you, John, for shepherding this poem through the ethers to reach us. So lovely, and calls for some time to sink in.
In my years as a psychotherapist and psychiatrist, I have been constantly reminded of the dilemmas,the koans of life – its seeming complexity, and yet, in the end, its simplicity of how all of us need to be connected in order to tolerate our realistic fear of NOT being….
Perhaps an obscure comment, but one from the heart.
John Sommers-Flanagan 
Thanks, John. Can you change my email to joycehocker20@gmail.com, please. I am deleting this aol account. xo Joyce
Thanks to Rita for sharing, and to you, John, for shepherding this poem through the ethers to reach us. So lovely, and calls for some time to sink in.
In my years as a psychotherapist and psychiatrist, I have been constantly reminded of the dilemmas,the koans of life – its seeming complexity, and yet, in the end, its simplicity of how all of us need to be connected in order to tolerate our realistic fear of NOT being….
Perhaps an obscure comment, but one from the heart.
Jonahtan