Afire love

This track by Ed Sheeren always moves me touching so deeply on the theme of grief for his grandfather. I never got to know my father’s father, he died when my Dad was only 12 and similarly, Mum lost her father at age 7 in 1941, but my Nana remarried a lovely English man the family affectionately called ‘Poppa’ and Poppa got ill with cancer when I was only a baby and the family took me to the hospital to sit on his bed. My own father died in 1985 at the age of 64 so this song encapsulates for me all of those feelings, I do not remember his funeral much at all, it was a blur and I left for the UK a month or so later after my boyfriend broke it off with me. We were meant to be travelling together. I left for the UK alone and had many adventures and wilderness experiences there battling all my unresolved emotions. Listening to this song is always cathartic for me.