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When You Don’t Know It Will Be the Last
2 min readJun 22, 2024
A Poem of Loss
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Leo Tolstoy
When you
Don’t Know
It will be
The last
You don’t Think
About how
Much the call
Would mean
To you
Friends forever
It’s True
But forever pauses
When they go
Before you.
Words are like nets — we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t pos- sibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
-JODI PICOULT
When you
Don’t Know
It will
Be the last letter
You’ll ever
Write
