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A Resident Of Your House
I try to reach you...
...but you have sentenced
yourself to a prison and
cannot see beyond its bars.
I hope you will awaken...
...but you are dreaming that
you're not in control of your life—
and think that the dream is real.
I long for you to heal...
...but you have quarantined your
pain and prescribed that its
only medication be hatred.
You want so much to find love...
...but I am here, inside of your heart,
hoping you will—at long last—
be true to yourself.
For, I am a resident of your house...
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Three Dark Horses)
"I am the darkness which brings the light!"
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My Spiritual Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I wrote this poem when I worked with troubled youth, which helped me to realize that I was really trying to heal myself by trying to heal the troubled youth! So, that is why I decided to go into therapy, since I needed to work through some major issues stemming from my truly dysfunctional childhood.
And this poem was also published on my "Small All White in the Forest" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blogs (please see the hyperlinks below for the blogs), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Small All White in the Forest" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This poem was written in Salt Lake City, Utah.
-Paulee
https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
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P.S.: If you are interested in reading all of the posts in the series I wrote that include the poem "A Resident Of Your House" from the above-mentioned blogs, which are listed under the post title, "For My Students, Part 1" through "For My Students, Part 3" on both of my "Small All White in the Forest" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blogs, please see the hyperlinks below:
https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com/search/label/For%20My%20Students
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com/search/label/For%20My%20Students
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This "Three Dark Horses" Post No. 010 was edited on July 2nd, 2026.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
