Joy and sorrow

Some bad in the good

Some good in the bad

This is the ying and yang of it

Our soul profits to understand

How sometimes it can be that

Hidden deep in the sorrow

We learn something of deep importance

That makes our hearts happier tomorrow

For without suffering

How would we understand joy

And without a connection with joy

How would our hearts suffer when we lost

That which seemed so precious to us

And demanded such a profound cost

And when a soul we love is taken

We feel so utterly forsaken

As an empty space or deep abyss opens up inside

But then we find over time

That such a loss or leaving

Expands our hearts

Into places of understanding

That we could never discover

If we never allowed ourselves that grieving

But instead only let it contract us

Into a hard tight ball of pain

Abandoning an opportunity to learn

That it is only through grieving and accepting our loss

And allowing it to soften us

That we will ever find a way

To open our hearts

And embrace love again