Balance
©1991 Susan Noyes Anderson
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My friend, you need not shelter me
from sorrows that are thine.
If I choose to bear thy burden,
I must cast off one of mine.
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Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.