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This is called-- this
is written for my son.

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My oldest son has been
diagnosed as schizophrenic

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and that's very difficult
for other people who

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have this problem.

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It is very difficult
for a mother,

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you know: what do-- you do?

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So this poem though
it was written

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about Absalom, the story
of Absalom in the Bible?

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It was really me
thinking about my son.

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Oh, Absalom, my son, my
son, even as I turned myself

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from you, I long to hold
you, oh, my wild haired son

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running in the wilderness away
from me from us into a thicket

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you could not foresee.

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If you had stayed, I
feared you would kill me.

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If you left, I
feared you would die.

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Oh, my son, my son, what
does the Lord require?

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