Contests
And the winner is…
Recently, following my Q and A with single mom author Emily Listfield, I asked you to share how you’ve found closure. Mae picked the winner out of a hat… Congrats to VJ, who wrote:
Closure? What a concept! Closure comes:
Sometimes locked behind steel bars, grimacing out towards the world it despises.
Always at a great distance, emotionally, physically & psychically.
Sometimes it comes only with death, as the last act of grace releasing several inmates from torment & pain.
Most times it’s an act in progress. With the pervasive fear of the return of the monster, the return of the half hearted lover, the misanthropic menace, the child hater, the shameless nameless mendacity that still lurks about in your town, always in mind.
The unanswered questions that remain on the lips for years. Why? Why then? What happened? The train wreck you were in that destroyed nearly everything, but that you still can’t quite recall accurately enough to retell with any real satisfaction until years later.
Closure comes with forgetting the pain. Ignoring it, and filling the emptiness with renewed Joy, friendships and new troubles to push out the old.
It remains ever with us until it is over written in our memories. And then we still have the ghosts to contend with.
To live on within.
Cheers, ‘VJ’
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You go VJ! Please write to me offline so I can send you Emily’s novel, Waiting to Surface.
If anyone wants to add how you’ve found closure in your life, please do!
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Err thanks Rachel! I’m glad I noticed this! I’ll see if I can get my real email addy to you soon. Cheers & Thanks again, ‘VJ’