My Route Of Escape (April 14, 2016)

Ottawa

The national capital

And my reprieve

However temporary

It may be

From him.

Short of Windsor

Or a northern Ontario

Community location

Being the furtherest university

From here.

Sadly

Putting distance

Between a trauma site

And you

Doesn't mean peace.

A fact

I discovered

In the fall of 1990

As I battled

Severe depression.

During the rainiest

October and November

I have lived

Through.

More than once

I thought

Of jumping

Into a drained lock

Of Rideau Canal.

That forms

One of Carleton University's

Boundaries.

Only

To be dismissed

As homesickness

On my part.

By the university's

Counselling staff

In my first year

There.

Once more

Do I fall

Through

The system's cracks.

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