
Why is it strong to smile
Rather than cry
When your heart is truly breaking?
Why is loss something others with lesser knowledge
Advise we must move on from?
Silence and tears falling
Bear testament to the truth of a heart bereft
As well as love’s depth
And loss is a physical thing
That makes its presence felt
When we least expect
Caught unawares
We tremble as the surface cracks
And our entire being
Shakes with the memory
Of those special moments
Spent together
The touch of a hand
Will never again be felt
And there is an empty space
Left
In the place that love once filled
That will never assume the same shape
Again
So perhaps it is truer
To accept
That grief requires of us a surrender
An overpowering of all of our senses
A crumbling of the very foundations
Upon which we rest
And tears falling
Are the soul’s truest response
When grief comes calling
I so get this at the moment. Beautiful.
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I actually wrote it with you in mind after reading your post. 💞
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Thank you
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This is beautifully written. I was always told how strong I was when my father passed away when I was 17 years old. I wasn’t strong. I was holding all that unimaginable grief in the depths of my soul. I pushed it down because that is what I was supposed to do. It took me almost 35 years to heal from the loss of my father because every time I thought I was ‘over’ it, the grief would knock me down even further. Finally, by allowing the grief to be known, to be heard and to be felt, I was able to set it free. I still miss my father but all those emotions of losing him needed to work their way out and that can’t happen if we continue to cover up the pain. Emotions are in us for a reason. They need to be felt and they need to be allowed to flow freely.
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I really resonate Mary cause I went through the same with the grief over my fathers loss. It took about 15 years to begin to connect to some of it and each time another loss comes as we both know earlier ones are triggered. Its so important people know its essential and natural to cry and release the tears. Thanks so much for sharing your experience here. It really means a lot. 💞
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Sadly, we’ve been taught from an early age to be brave. One thing we can do going forward is to try to share with others the necessity of grieving and self love. I don’t want my loved ones to suffer the way that you and I have.
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That is what I see as my whole purpose Mary…much much love to you xox
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