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Olivia/O. J. Barré's avatar

This is beautiful, NJ. 🙏❤️

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NJ Simat 🤍's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Olivia/O. J. Barré's avatar

my pleasure!

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Parker McCoy's avatar

"This murder, a blessing." My favorite line. I love this journey from city to country and beyond. Excellent poem, NJ.

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NJ Simat 🤍's avatar

Thank you, we left the city after a few people in our circles, and then a dear friend, lost their lives to crime. I was also assaulted in my car one day & then chased in broad daylight another—I couldn’t get ahold of the police department for over 20min, I was on hold for 911. (This all just in a couple of years during covid) This poem may not be the type to get published by literary journals, but it means so much to me.

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Parker McCoy's avatar

Dang. I'm sorry that happened to you and your friends. This world gets crazier all the time. But art is a good way to heal, for sure.

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NJ Simat 🤍's avatar

Thank you, art is so healing. I typically don’t write about any problems like that on here! or anything I don’t see solutions to, I more try to be a “light”, as they say, spread joy, by trying to offer anything I can.

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Parker McCoy's avatar

Yes, I pretty much do the same thing but something from the heart and from a real experience can be so powerful. Great work.

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