Your heart breaks
a thousand times
your soul rips to shreds;
the pain so bad
you feel you can’t
take any more
How can you
go on?
How can you face
another tomorrow?
You want to die, too …
but you don’t
You get up in the morning
put one foot
in front of the other
get through another day …
another night …
another day …
You go from intense pain
to feeling numb
sometimes the loss
is too overpowering
sometimes it hurts so bad
it feels the sorrow
will eat you alive
You feel alone
you feel no one understands
no one can know your loss.
sometimes it feels like
you’ll never get over it
that a part of you
has died, too.
You know others love you
but they have
their own lives
they go home
to their togetherness
and you feel alone
slowly … day after day
and one day you pick
up the brush
paint a sky
with your tears
Flowers and leaves
blossom from the shattered
pieces of your heart
and fall like raindrops
onto the canvas
the landscape dotted
with budding ashes
You stand back
look at your work
see the beauty
beyond the tears
the life in the pain
comfort in sorrow
To know true love
is to feel the deep pain
of intense loss
To know true love
is to find the courage
to live
Healing will come
For now, allow the sorrow
Remember others care
others are just a call
or a prayer away
you are never truly alone.
