thanks, mudlark, you got the idea of this thread. It was not so much to say, don't feel like this, or, change your behaviour, it was to acknowledge those feelings, which come occasionally, pay a trip, and at some point fly away (like that big flightless bird in the first poem).

grief,hurt and pain pay their visits, as do other emotions.

i have copied some of the other poems or songs that people have added to this thread, to my poetry collection.

My youngest daughter, who I love very much, is going away tomorrow, to live in another country, for a while or maybe for a long time. It was good to re read this thread again.

x freda