Tag Archives: loss
After The News
She had run, sick with grief, all the way home. The announcement had come without regard to the news cycle; she wasn’t ready for something like this. A hundred thousand thoughts and feelings ran through her. Anger like fire. Misery … Continue reading
Untranslateable
Gone in a flash, in an instant, in a moment and all I have left are the memories of a time and place that never were. I can see your too-blue eyes and I can taste the smoke on your … Continue reading
Finding Out
Thunderheart and sickswimbobblehead the spinspindizzy of whoopbreathchoke and stumbletripstumbletrip until crashsmack and grimaceblush or gritgrin or flinchsmile and achewalk, groansighslump, yearnreachwish — bowkneelplant, bowretchsob, holdtight holdfast holdon givein giveup giveout — wavebreak of tidalrush Brokenheart, griefstruck. Stricken. Rememberlove. Darlinglove. Wonderjoy, … Continue reading
Haven’t I Always
Promise you’ll remember the best of me, try hard to forget the rest of me, think of happy thoughts and let your mind breathe. Promise you’ll keep in mind the gladdest days, and leave behind the baddest days, think of … Continue reading
In My Worrying, He Slips Away
His face is grey. I see the lack of light there. In the space that used to fill him up with life there is only a hollow. He breathes. He eats and speaks and he exists. His body survives. He … Continue reading