Remember Home: A Poem by Eric Golden, 2nd Year Student and Intern

Remember Home: A Poem by Eric Golden, 2nd Year Student and Intern

REMEMBER HOME

Turn back towards God

Loneliness, panic, sadness, disconnection

Any sufferings

Are not punishments

They are guides

Pointing you back towards God

Towards love, towards family

How lonely Pluto must be

So far out in the darkness and cold

With only an almost imperceptible sensation of gravity calling him in

Until he remembers

And turns his face back towards the sun

To feel warmth

And to again, remember home

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Jim Nolan is in his 6th year as president of Southwestern College. He has worked for a dozen universities or colleges, both online and on the ground. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, and attended graduate school in English/Irish Literature. He reads a lot of books, takes a lot of photos, plays guitar, got married in India in 2010, and has a wire haired fox terrier named Barney. He is the opposite of a guru, whatever that is called.