Grief is a solitary room,
a place you sit in alone.
Over time that room stretches;
grief becomes a shared landscape,
the mourned being landscape itself—
not gone, but part of the air
that settles around each connection.
It turns into a kind of weather
you move through
and breathe.
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Too much time in any space is not healthy. A feeling of being trapped like an animal and surface and lonliness and bordem will always be an enemy.
So true RSM, thanks so much 🙏🏻🕊️
Deeply psychological Cryptic this depicts for me a person that can not let go and chooses this landscape as preferable to any other. A poem filled with emotion where the air is heavy.
There are days that can connect. Thanks Soren 🙏🏻🕊️
You are most welcome Cryptic
Your poem serves to articulate feelings that may be difficult to express, offering a space for reflection and understanding in times of sorrow.
The greater the space the bigger the reflection. We don’t know good until it’s gone. Sometimes 🙏🏻🕊️
Good write A. Fido does not 'give me any grief' but KP does! lol.
That’s excellent to hear! Give Fido an extra treat, on me🙏🏻🕊️
My friend, this is beautifully restrained. The room widens, becomes weather, becomes breath…and suddenly grief isn’t absence, it’s atmosphere. The closing lines are earned and true. Profoundly powerful, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
And then we are freed, not intentionally but as a matter of course; naturally🙏🏻🕊️
Naturally. Indeed.
I like the movement from isolation to interconnectedness in the poem.
I guess that would be the sweet spot of the process. Thanks soheil🙏🏻🕊️
You are welcome.
So very true Rik, grief gets milder over time.
Andy
So true, Andy🕊️🙏🏻
I quite agree. They say Times a great Healer, but the Wounds still get sore every now and then.
Haven't been around as I was having trouble with my device.
Tech is not all that it’s chalked up to be 🕊️🙏🏻
it is always better to share your troubles, and halve them because solitude can have devastating effects..you have shown this so well
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