The Rawness of Time

<p>Poems and stories.</p><p>A person of advanced years will have developed a certain perspective on the events that have brought him or her to that point.</p><p>One tends to shred away unimportant things and to dwell on what it was that has moulded one's character. As such a senior's thoughts become the most personal of spaces. It takes perhaps reckless courage to expose those distilled memories for others to examine. Only a small number of <strong><em>survivors</em> <em>into elderhood</em></strong> will bother with or be brave enough to open up one's soul in as much of a raw fashion as does Ben in these poems and recollections.</p>