ZLB

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
APPEAL:
 
listen (please, please);
 
open yourself, wide;
    join (you, me),
connect (us,together),
 
tell me.
 
do something if distressed;
 
    @dawn, dance;
    @evening, sing;
    read (books,$poems,stories) until peaceful;
    study if able;
 
    write me if-you-please;
 
sort your feelings, reset goals, seek (friends, family, anyone);
 
        do*not*die (like this)
        if sin abounds;
 
keys (hidden), open (locks, doors), tell secrets;
do not, I-beg-you, close them, yet.
 
                            accept (yourself, changes),
                            bind (grief, despair);
 
require truth, goodness if-you-will, each moment;
 
select (always), length(of-days)
 
# listen (a perl poem)
# Sharon Hopkins
# rev. June 19, 1995