Dear Anita,

Incredible.  Thank you immensely for typing all of  this out.  I want to reply in segments.

I too enjoyed this poem, enjoyed in the sense that it is simple and makes sense, not overly flowery or abstract.

It states:

Contentment is life living through you.

Joy is life living through you.

Satisfaction and strength

are life living through you.

peace is life living through you.

And I think, I know, I have none of those.  Contentment – no.  Joy – no. Satisfaction -no. Peace -definitely no.

I do not have life living through me.  Nope. In fact I do not feel I am living.  I feel I am circling, but not living.  Wow, what a shame. Surely is.