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Reborn - a poem

by Cynthia S. Rayne

They practice incessantly honing experimental procedures

For which I am the butt.

Trusting, hopeful that a cure is eminent.

Once again powerless, yielding,

Wanting to believe that these hands are competent, caring

To carry me beyond the shadowed valley.

The psyche weakens with each shattering occurrence;

I yearn to regain the necessary strength from who knows where.

The good in life and these surroundings draws upon the silken thread

That keeps me going; lifts me spontaneously, gloriously from

The doldrums of vanishing despair.

Cynthia S. Rayne, is bipolar as was her father, and as is her sister, who is a rapid cycler. Her sister is in Harlem Hospital for Stevens-Johnson syndrome after receiving Lamictal and Depakote.

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