Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Grief


Grief
By Joseph


Grief...
I don't understand...

I don't understand
How we can love
someone
How we can know
someone
And then they
can suddenly be
gone...

Is it a cosmic joke
Is it a lesson to be
learned...
Is it meant to humble
us, to hurt us
To make us feel
like fools?

But then we remember...
Who they were
What they taught us
What they said...

How they loved us
How they needed us
How they live inside
us...

How they are as
real as anything
that has ever been...

How they were as
much as we will
ever be...

We live, incomplete,
but yet fuller
because of them.


Photo: flickr (Andrea in grief, NCBrian)

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful and appropriate in my life right now. If you don't mind, I'll link to this tomorrow on my blog.

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  2. Nice tribute Joeseph. We ARE made better by knowing them IF we realize, as you have, that we are.

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