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No One to Wake by Marilyn C O'leary

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No One to Wake by Marilyn C O'leary

In No One To Wake, Marilyn C. O'Leary shares a bouquet of mourning the death of her husband of fifty years. This book of poetry is beyond beautiful. And one needn't have been married for fifty years, or married at all, to feel softly wrapped in the understanding of how it feels to lose someone you love deeply. Both pain and transcendence are painted in her poems, plus the naturalness and magic of death itself .you took your leave breathing like a fish, swimming out into an ocean of darkness and love. She also addresses the guilty urge to look back and question whether she did enough, whether she was enough The recipe for my life had ingredients you didn't like, and then acknowledges that Our relationship was whole. And then there's the need to go on. She recognizes the freedom that comes from loss; sadness an opening. (to) find yourself unwrapped. I could do anything, be anything, go anywhere, she writes, but What if it wasn't you who kept me tethered? In this small book, O'Leary takes us from the dark folds of anguish where we're sometimes drawn towards death ourselves, to the realization that The answer to all is Life.
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ISBN 13 9781940769370
ISBN 10 194076937X
Title No One to Wake
Author Marilyn C O'leary
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Mercury Heartlink
Year published 2015-04-08
Number of pages 118
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.