Poetry for the Grieving

Grief/Rebirth

Sometimes, you crash into a concrete slab.
Going 200 m.p.h.
Facing a hellfire with no exit.
That’s the nature of grief.

Sometimes, an imaginary rat
gnaws your leg.
Constantly, every day.
Till y continue Reading…

For Everyone

I can’t just suddenly tell you
what I should be telling you,
friend, forgive me; you know
that although you don’t hear my words,
I wasn’t asleep or i continue Reading…

For Grief

When you lose someone you love,
Your life becomes strange,
The ground beneath you gets fragile,
Your thoughts make your eyes unsure;
And some dead echo
drags your continue Reading…

Legacy

I leave you this space
Which I have occupied
Temporarily,
Now clean as a vacuum
To hold short sorrow
And brief remembering.
There are no shards,
No continue Reading…

Heavy

That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I went closer,
and I did not die.
Surely God
had His hand in this,
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Pain Of Birth

In still darkness; the quiet hidden place, 
far from revealing light or probing gaze,
the song begins again.
“As it was in the beginning, Is now and ever shall be…”
Y continue Reading…

Prayer

Hold on to what is good
Even if it’s a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe
Even if it’s a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do
Even if it’s continue Reading…

The Thing Is

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands
your throat filled with the silt of it continue Reading…

Grief

When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla
you must count yourself lucky.
You must offer her what’s left
of your dinner, the book you were trying to finish
you must put aside, continue Reading…