Every Sunday I listen to CBC Radio One on Sunday Edition. Last Sunday I heard the story “Poetry Saved Me” and thought of my stories. Poetry saved me, in my book “Wings Toward Sunlight”(Mosaic Press 2011), I share my experience in Acknowledgement, but I never knew that my poem could save other people’s life.
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain. _Emily Dickinson