Friday, January 14, 2011

Understanding

I don't understand what to say to someone when a loved one dies.  It will be okay, with time.  I'm sorry.  I'm here.  All sometimes inadequate, to the grief you feel on your own trying to poorly console, share a chocolate donut.  I'm sorry reaches no bounds, does not touch the feeling of wanting to make it right, with no right answer.
I love you.  What next?  Grief's knife etches brilliant patterns across salty tears tonight.  Somewhere, everywhere.  Here.  Not my own grief but shared in the million mistakes I have made, alongside of the good I have tried to wrought.  Here in pieces tonight, it burns my eyes.

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