Wake Up! Grief Needs Something From Your Heart.
If you haven’t lost anyone close, you don’t understand how grief batters you every day, drags you down, rearranges your life.
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Mark Liebenow
There Is Enough.
I have felt enough grief to know that almost everyone is mourning some loss. Almost everyone is struggling to make sense of a death.
Climbing Through the Crayon Box, Searching for Saudade.
But she is never coming back, and I fear that if I look in too deep, I will find that only emptiness is left. What crayon is going to color that?
Bang the Drum: Elegy for the Grieving. {poetry}
Bang the drum for our sons and daughters, for husbands and wives, mothers and friends.
Shout death’s name to a clueless world. Bang the drum loudly!
Love in grief has a powerful rhythm. Bang the drum with courage and strength!
Bang it loud filled with compassion! Bang the drum proudly!
Do Not Look Away. {poetry}
If your own heart is broken beyond belief, if you have lost someone dear to you
to a heart attack, accident, stillbirth, or cancer, and it has thrown your life into the hamper,
allow those who love to come and care for you. Do not look away.
The Hard Romance Of Grief.
She says suffering proves the depth of my love. I tell her to “Stuff it. I don’t need to prove anything to you!” She whacks me in the head. I call her names, she calls me worse. I apologize. It’s this way with us. But I could use less drama.