It Stays With You

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*For our Pastor who lost his 31 year old brother Yesterday…

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

It stays

With you

A sharp pain

Or a dull

Ache

A reminder

That a loved

One is gone.

It carries

With it

The memories

That come back

In trickles

And floods.

You carry it

With you

Moments and

Memories

Even the mundane

Carry so much

Meaning.

It ebbs and

It flows

Like water

Falling from

A waterfall

The grief

That you

Carry with

You.

(C) Michelle R Kidwell

December.07.2021