Grief, a bully
bursts through
the door,
no warning.
Blindsided
my heart
pummeled,
I pray
I breathe
I connect
to the earth
and
the universe,
knowing that
grief will
blow out
the back
door
and return
in time.
Yes, it will. I heard someone on NPR speaking yesterday who had lost his wife when their daughter was just a few months old. He said that 6 years later, the grief doesn't lack in intensity when it comes, but it arrives more infrequently. That was my sense after my mom died. Although now, even when I miss her, I do so with a sense of joy in having had her in my life for the years I did.
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Yes, it will. I heard someone on NPR speaking yesterday who had lost his wife when their daughter was just a few months old. He said that 6 years later, the grief doesn't lack in intensity when it comes, but it arrives more infrequently. That was my sense after my mom died. Although now, even when I miss her, I do so with a sense of joy in having had her in my life for the years I did.
I'm having a particularly hard stretch.
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