Aching For Tomorrow.

Aching For Tomorrow

Frank L. Meyskens, Jr.

Fithian Press

c/o Daniel & Daniel Publishers

PO Box 2790, McKinleyville, CA 95519

9781564744685, $14.00 www.danielpublishing.com 1-800-662-8351

Well crafted poetry can stimulate, can sooth, can lift the spirit, can inspire the soul. "Aching For Tomorrow" is a compilation of the poetry of Frank L. Meyskens Jr. who began writing poetry in his third year of medical school as a buffer against the enormous emotional toll initiated by one of his first patient encounters. Two years later he stopped writing poetry thinking that he had advanced enough in his medical career that the emotional solace provided by his poetry writing was no longer needed. The death of one of his patients some thirty years later compelled him to turn again to poetry as an aid in dealing with the impact of terminal cancer on his patients lives--and the lives of those around them. The result is "Aching For Tomorrow", a collection of powerful free verse poems that are powerful, universal expressions that can benefit us all when we are confronted with the impact of suffering and death in our lives and they lives of those we love. 'Gentile Tears for Hannah Szenes': You did not die in vain sixty years ago/at the age of twenty-three. You did not roll the dice/and lose as you thought you had.//By doing what was right/the tyrant was vanquished/And Jews know a better day/until the next monster appears.//Your still shining face, your bravery, courage, hope/pierce my heart and make me angry that/it is with the blood of the young/that wars are won or lost.