The heart shatters at the loss of love,
The crippling pain of a death of one loved,
As they leave us alone in a smaller world,
Alone to survive on our own.
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Gone but never forgotten,
The pain rises and ascends to suffocate,
The chest tightens, threatening to explode,
And the waterfall breaks in a never-ending cascade.
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Dreams are sought over the act of living,
Fantasyland a preferable residence,
Because disbelief has taken hold,
Strangling our mind of the truth of it all.
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Shock wantonly wraps around us,
As we cannot accept the truth that is unwillingly laid before us,
The struggle is real,
And forgetfulness an easy assignment.
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The pain crescendos through our being,
Our mind refusing to accept that which is too real,
But until it does, the grieving cannot succumb,
Into acceptance of a monumental loss.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Comments (3)
The truth for every family with whom I sat, not to mention for us when others did the sitting (& the cleaning & the cooking & the receiving of guests).
"forgetfulness an easy assignment" masterfully written phrase!
This was soooo emotional and relatable! Sometimes it just takes so long for grief to turn into acceptance. Loved your poem!