ATTENTION GRIEVANCE IN EFFECT
Interim Directives for Navigating Loss
All personnel are hereby notified.
Your routines may fail to sustain continuity.
Absences of the departed have been recorded.
Expect prolonged periods of emptiness.
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Do not attempt forced restoration.
Compliance with sorrow is mandatory.
Resistance may produce system-wide fatigue
and unauthorized tremors of spirit.
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Visitors are cautioned.
Approach with restraint.
Language of encouragement may exacerbate instability.
Presence alone is authorized.
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Previous metrics for normal operation are suspended.
Time may elongate without notice.
Objects once familiar will register as hollow.
Silence will arrive uninvited,
and conversations will fracture beneath the burdens of what is lost.
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Be advised.
Optimism as a corrective measure is null.
Attempted cheer may trigger secondary complications,
anger, guilt, sudden tears.
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Recovery is neither scheduled nor guaranteed.
Patience is recommended.
Self-care protocols are authorized,
though efficacy varies.
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This condition remains in effect indefinitely.
All attempts at compliance with expected conduct
will be measured against an altered standard.
Residents are advised to monitor their internal thresholds,
and recognize that prolonged disruption is sanctioned,
necessary, inevitable.
Issued by Authority of Absence Management.
About the Creator
Tim Carmichael
Let your becoming be louder than your fear, and your smallest steps become the road you once thought impossible to walk. An Appalachian poet and cookbook author my book Beautiful and Brutal Things is on Amazon, Link 👇
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