I can feel your agony, Joan. I hope it works out!

We can feel hurt and trapped, yet I think we, each must get to that point where tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union. It takes effort,. But, worth the work. Your poems on such familial hardships speak of a too common a ground today. Very relatable. Thanks. G

One can feel the anguish in this tug at the heart ... lovelight&peace

Been there, with families and others...you sometimes just have to gut it out and wait. People do return in their own time and for their own reasons and maybe all we can do is be there when they do.