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It All is Blackness to Me

Ger White·February 28, 2025

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It All is Blackness to Me

written by: Ger White

The children they come round and party
I hear all their fun and their screams
They run and they play and they bicker
But all is blackness to me

The postman comes round with big greetings
A letter from over the sea
I read it – the words speak quite kindly
But all is blackness to me

“Come – let’s go into town for clothes shopping
You may just like what you see
You might find someone to talk to!”
It all is blackness to me

When will my children discover
I have long lost the will to be here
I do not feel joy – or see colours
It all is blackness to me

This blackness is now my big Blanket
In its own way a comfort, a shell
I can do what I like deep inside here
Revisit things I enjoyed so well

But they’re fading – the joys of my childhood
I no longer know names of my friends
Nor days of the week for that matter
Oh where will this black journey end?

But a new light is dawning, I read it
A book which explains how I feel
And says I can do something about it
There will be no more blackness for me.

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Ger White - (Gerardine) grew up in West of Ireland. She inherited the skill of poetic rhyme from parents and writes to give continuity of traditional ways and for fun. She is published in Clarendon House Publications - Poetica Series, Sweetycat Press publications, Linden Press publications, Impspired publications. And her work appears in over 22 Anthologies. Her first book “Newspapers on the Floor, Poems on Irish Traditional ways” Amazon. Her second book “Celtic Visions – Poems from the Celtic World” Amazon and all bookshops.

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