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Show 'Citizens' Corner This weeks Citizens Corner was written as a tribute to her mother-in-law, Maude Reynolds by Ann Reynolds. DEATH Death is a bullet shooting a hole in the heart gaping, full of hurt, dull pain. A hole so deep and open that someone else could fall in . . . Una ware, and opening left from Here to There. You have gone and I feel your back stiffen with the struggle of facing the unknown with courage. I'm so cold here, shivering cold. You must be freezing too, cold with the fear of passing through, but not so cold as it was as you find you are new. I have spent four years with you slowly dying, learning about death, feeling compassion. I move with you there, emotionally supportive. Now I will withdraw and protect myself, Stay alive and be happy until my times comes. Withdraw while there is danger of me falling through . . . Return and touch me again. Be there when my own mother comes. Greet my father, Tell him I love him. He has been with me, supporting me with his tough mind in the last month. Let's go to the funeral, listen to music, see old friends, then back our separate ways, you leaning on those over there. I have been holding on in a very tight way, your struggle to die I " was so hard. It has been such a strain. E You went on alone. A Your fears all gone. I see the dark hole M&ift' slowly closing . . . vjwfee Stay close, if we will hear you A3 1?' when we need you Jks' tOi-i to live. IvSy By Ann Reynolds JlggL nP4 |