4 - Alpha Omega Alpha
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Discarded and but not forgotten<br />
No place for photos or mementos,<br />
His heart is dead to mine.<br />
Icy and unforgiving<br />
Wind will chill the empty pages<br />
No soft breeze will comfort me.<br />
There is not cleansing for my soul<br />
Trapped in love and by love<br />
I live my days and nights alone.<br />
The sight of him pains me,<br />
The thought of him burns<br />
I cast away his image but not his memory.<br />
Who will trample these pages?<br />
Like worthless refuse<br />
As he has done to my heart<br />
Is there healing?<br />
Will the memories fade into peace?<br />
I hope but fear not.<br />
This album is cast away<br />
No more to haunt me<br />
Yet, he haunts me still.<br />
I, too, am a castaway<br />
Adrift in despair and loneliness<br />
Awaiting my end.<br />
Babette B. Caraccio, MD<br />
Dr. Caraccio was elected to AΩA at New York University<br />
School of Medicine in 1982. Her address is: 23 Mianus View<br />
Terrace, Cos Cob, Connecticut 06807. E-mail: babettecmd@<br />
optonline.net.<br />
Empty memory album, discarded by the curb,<br />
Evokes an image dark, intended to disturb,<br />
But faded and lost photos, we knew would never last,<br />
Have now become the remnants of the techniques of the past.<br />
The albums of today, stored in many bytes and bits,<br />
Are in a fast computer that on a desktop sits,<br />
They’re all stuffed there within, a large and neat selection<br />
Of digital results, to forms just near perfection.<br />
They make their rounds with lightening speed, o’er electronic<br />
space,<br />
And unite the far flung family at very distant place,<br />
But there’s that special image which is quite hard to find,<br />
It’s stuck there in the neurons that pass for what’s my mind.<br />
My Dearest<br />
We shared so much so long<br />
Life bulged with unborn dreams<br />
Unexpected joy grew from gentle sweetness<br />
into hearty robust love<br />
Then you left<br />
And took me with you<br />
Except the plastic cover<br />
That hides my empty space keeping everyone<br />
from seeing I have gone<br />
Helene Hubbard, PhD, MD<br />
Dr. Hubbard was elected to AΩA at East Tennessee State<br />
University in 1986. Her address is 408 Manatee Avenue, East,<br />
Bradenton, Florida 34208. E-mail: hhub@kidsdoingbetter.com.<br />
Christopher M. Papa, MD<br />
Dr. Papa was elected to AΩA at UMDNJ—New Jersey Medical School in 1986. His<br />
address is: 17 Clover Hill Lane, Colts Neck, New Jersey 07722-1004. E-mail: doxite@verizon.net.<br />
The Pharos/Date 37
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