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    Journey to Here
    Journey to Here
    Journey to Here
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    Journey to Here

    By Jo Baker

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    'The poems in The Journey to Here are wise and often whimsical; some are dark as obsidian, others crystal clear with the joy of life. Jo Baker is a born storyteller, a lover of language and a strong woman who's not afraid to confront and write about life's challenges. Baker combines rich details, sharp observations and a wild imagination with rhyth
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGinninderra Press
    Release dateJun 3, 2015
    ISBN9781740279543
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      Journey to Here - Jo Baker

      Darkness or Light

      I once walked in darkness and what could I see?

      It was a misshapen echo, a doppelganger of me.

      She would carelessly cut me then leave me to bleed;

      I must head to the light so I won’t drown in need.

      When I walk in the light, well, what can I say?

      There’s another echo that won’t turn away.

      I’m enfolded with love and maternal praise

      And the words that I write I like to see on a page.

      When I walked in the darkness, the words that I wrote,

      While sometimes were beautiful, were lacking in hope.

      It’s the path that I walked just so I could cope

      But the dark of the path was limited in scope.

      So I’ll walk in the light for as long as I know

      That the way to the light is to let darkness go

      And fertiliser happens so good stuff can grow

      And the seed to my happiness only I can sow.

      Dark 1988–1993

      dark

      Friends

      I think of all the friends I’ve known

      Who I’ve trusted with my life

      Who’ve only turned around

      And stabbed me with a knife.

      They’ve destroyed my self-esteem

      And ripped apart my will

      Yet when they want my friendship back

      I’m there and trusting still.

      I should have learnt by now

      I should have learnt to hate

      But trust is all I’ve ever known

      And I always trust a mate.

      They talk behind my back

      And make a fool of me

      Yet I won’t listen to the truth

      And I’m too blind to see.

      When I’m on a high

      They are there as well

      But when I lose, or when I’m down

      Then I can go to hell.

      I should be less trusting

      Is what my true friends say

      Yet when it comes to friendship

      I can’t tell night from day.

      Maybe if I had less heart

      And didn’t pick up strays

      Then maybe I could pick my friends

      And wouldn’t hurt this way.

      Friends should be there always

      Through the thick and thin

      I dedicate to all my mates

      And those who’ve never been.

      Final Death

      When dreams will turn to nightmares

      And daytime turns to dark

      The magnificent to ugly

      And the beautiful to stark.

      This will be our ending

      There will be no more

      Our world’s worst catastrophe

      The end, a nuclear war.

      There may be some survivors

      But they won’t live for long

      Their triumphs all forgotten

      No words to give a song.

      The innocent will suffer

      For no one can we save

      Our earth will be infertile

      Just one gigantic grave.

      Entrapment

      Here I walk upon a bed of thorns.

      Nothing can hurt me for pain I have scorned

      And nothing can stop me for, oh, can’t you see?

      Pain is nothing and nothing is me.

      I’ve trained myself so not to care

      For love is wonderful but life is

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