The Grieving Heart

When grief is so great You cannot recognize the grief of others 

You become isolated and blinded 

When your heart is shattered into thousands of pieces because of your loss 

You cannot see the broken pieces of other hearts around you 

Your vision has turned inward preventing you from ever seeing their pain 

When you push away the hearts closest to you 

Those who love you dearly and want desperately to comfort you 

To take away your pain 

It hurts 

When your heart is inconsolable 

They grant you grace and retreat 

As they try to understand your bitter grief and tremendous loss 

Still Their tears flow along side yours and well up in pools of grief that drown their intended purpose 

So those closest to you withdraw 

To quietly and prayerfully grieve over your bitterly grieving heart 

And to commit you to the hands of Our Heavenly Father To comfort you and give you peace 

And to ask for the healing of their broken hearts

 Time Passes

Time passes

And takes with it my pain 

The breathtaking pain of grief 

That lingers 

But finally fades into yesterday

Tears that once flowed continuously 

Slow day by day

To flowing less frequently 

But still never stop

Always the reminders 

Are in everything 

The smell 

The memory 

The glimpse of a shadow 

The space occupied 

Now empty 

Time passes

And takes with it my pain

When I’m no more

No tears

When my memory joins yours

 The Pain Revisits

The pain revisits

When I watch a sad movie

The loss of a loved one revisits and is

Never forgotten 

The loss is relived everyday 

Every night

It’s the sudden, unexpected loss

That replays over and over

As comfort and peace try to

Elude the grasp

Of the bearer

To torture the soul

But God’s mercy intervenes

To grant hope everlasting