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When a Young Therapist Gushes Guilt
after His Patient's Suicide

Mel Waldman

When a young therapist gushes guilt after his patient’s suicide,
he drops into a desolate abyss and disappears.

“Why?” he shrieks in the catacombs of his mournful mind, as a
wildfire sweeps across his private wasteland of lamentations
and melting brain matter.

“Why?” he whispers as his sacred identity of healer and fixer
dissolves, disintegrates, and dies in a frozen nanosecond.

“Why?”

 
Now, in his first year of practice, imprinted in his shattered psyche
is the traumatic image of a hopeless man hanging high, swaying
back and forth above a wooden rocking chair, beneath a cracked
ceiling, inside a merciless, suffocative noose in a seething
suicide room,

a dead thing dangling and drowning in nothingness,
without a soul or the whisper of immortality.

 
“Why?” he howls from the abyss, gushing guilt throughout his long
endless night of unbearable grief, one elongated night or decades
stretching across a vast desert of despair or salvation.

What path will he choose?
Victim or survivor?
Fallen angel or healer?

A young therapist dreams. Within this visionary dream,
an alchemist transforms darkness into light and light
into the gold of love and redemption.

What path will he choose?
What do you believe in the
labyrinth of your
broken
soul?

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