October 22, 2021 · 2:38 pm
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The Baggage Handler – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

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“We may define therapy as a search for value.” Abraham Maslow

The Baggage Handler

I paid her for the letting go,
those harboured thoughts
pushed down,
now surfacing again.

She listened from her somber chair
to my every grief,
her silent compassion
a soft incise carefully drawn.

My many wounds released,
those neatly folded feelings
that have travelled long within me,
she drew my truest sense of self.


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35 responses to “The Baggage Handler – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon”

  1. Liz Gauffreau
    October 22, 2021 at 2:49 pm

    I know whereof you speak.

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  4. Chris Hall
    October 23, 2021 at 1:15 pm

    The all-important letting go… a heavy burden lifted, then such relief… 🙂

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  7. calmkate
    October 23, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    that’s what a therapist should do, once the connection is made its a painful but very healing journey … trust the process!

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  8. Amy
    October 25, 2021 at 2:54 pm

    “… truest sense of self”– we so need that during a certain stage of our life.
    Take care, Paul.

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  10. Cheryl, Gulf Coast Poet
    October 27, 2021 at 6:43 pm

    This is a wonderful post, Paul. Always good when these sessions are helpful! ❤ All the best!

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  11. lync56
    October 28, 2021 at 12:48 am

    Great poem of a good therapist experience – I aspire to this

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  13. Susi Bocks
    October 30, 2021 at 12:40 am

    It’s so good when you have a guide who knows what they are doing!

    Liked by 1 person

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