You jumped the fenceHow did you do it?I was always the one who Wanted to die You jumped so highI can’t see overI can’t see throughI can’t see you Did it hurt?Do you miss me?Were you scared? I jumped fencesUntil one sliced my calf open But I never jumped as highAs you Are you with the baby […]
Category Archives: Suffering
We ran to PhiladelphiaThrough Jingle BellsAnd fa LA LA We kept the ornaments we wrote our names onAs a family Morgan – Mommy – DaddyIn boxes We ran to Philadelphia from reminders He is gone From California blue warm ToPhiladelphia brown coldSteel brick and smiles We ran so far from remindersOf youOf our painOf fathoming the unfathomable All day and […]
This was my 2023.
This is like no grief. I’m a shell wading through mud, checking off boxes.
Pain is the only appropriate measuring stick, not the cause of the pain. No matter the loss, it’s the pain we carry that matters and the love that we can give each other that heals.