Larry Graves said: November 4, 2008 3:01 am PST
Hello.
Thank you for posting my poem on your front page.
There is a story that goes with that poem. The poem was written about 15 years ago. I usually wrote funny poems and lyrics, but one day the first line of the poem just came to me from out of the blue. I proceeded to write the poem, not knowing what it was about. This is why I have always felt I really didn't write the poem...at least not by myself.
Also at this time I was on a music site where I posted my comedy songs. I had a very nasty comment left for one of my songs by another artist. At first I was going to write back to him in anger, but at the last minute I decided to just send him the poem "Salvation".
I did not think he would respond to it, at least not in a good way...but he wrote back and told me that the poem had made him cry and he apologized to me for his actions. This really surprised me and made me realize the power of words on a page.
Thank you,
Larry Graves
http://www.youtube.com/canadianstudmuffin