Murray Dunlap’s most recent poem to appear here was “True” (May 2016)

In Another Life
By Murray Dunlap

I might understand
In another life
Why the pain was allowed
Needed
Deserved
So very intense
And why I pushed through
Despite it
Angry with it
Tested by it
Quivering from it
Succumbing to it
But it ended with love
That may be
All the answer I need