by Stuart Larner

I’ve heard 
there’s another place:
God told me in a book.
A land of healing
wherever you look.

I’ve heard 
this other place is
where you can go to pray.
I know you’ve been there:
You show it every day.

I’ve heard 
this other place is
where we take stock and heart
of those wider things
we sense we’re a part.

We know
this other place is
not far from you and me. 
And when we go there:
that’s when we are free.

Stuart Larner is a retired chartered psychologist. With Rosie Larner, as Rosy Stewart,  he wrote the novel “Hope: Stories from a Women’s Refuge”. He wrote the illustrated sonnet sequence “The Car” in 2016 and won the British Psychological society’s Poetry Competition 2022. For more poetry and stories, click here.

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