Grief

 

Shine on ! (my child!)

(I wrote this after talking to one of my nieces; she was processing her mother's (my sister's) loss)

When you sense the sorrow

Be it today, or tomorow,

Listen deeper to your heart

To those voices from the past,

reprising all we talked

(and those that I taught).

If happiness still eludes you

Look up to the high skies -

All those shining stars

or that floating cloud

is me...
Looking at thee, 

Happy and very proud,

and what you've become -

Grounded, kind and then some.

Trust me, my child,

I've seen whats in plan,

In that future, wondrous and wild,

You are that woman,

I could aspire to be !!
(Now, stop thinking of me,
Gotta go listen to live SPB)

Never Ending Story

 

Two years gone by

Since the goodbye(s)!

Was it yesterday,  

Or an eon ago?  

I turn the leaf 

In the book of grief,  

Every line I read, 

Strings a bead

of a memory past;

Of joy then, sorrow now.

Not wanting to last,

In this aching woe

I go to the last page -

Just as I fear,

Through my tears,

can't see "The End." 🥹

(Perhaps "yet" my friend !)

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When someone read this poem of mine, they sent me this beautiful Reddit post.