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What Is Grief
- by Michele Young
What Is Grief?
Who really knows?
How to do it—and—how it goes.
Grief I’m told is letting go,
Be it right or be it wrong,
Words and feelings to our own song.
Memories flood the tears in our eyes.
Do you think our loved one hears our cries?
And how the heart aches to no end,
Even knowing that our loved ones’ peace will send.
To feel so lonely and filled with fear,
I wonder if the Lord does truly hear?
So our days go by hour by hour,
As we smile and carry on with all our power.
We stay busy, sometimes too busy to see,
And notice in God, we truly need thee.
Our nights are filled with restless sleep,
Even knowing you’re in God’s keep.
We wake from slumber in the early morning light,
To weep our loved one, now, out of sight,
We toss and turn and try to pray,
Please Lord help us through another day!
And on the day where silence was once cherished,
This too, has somehow perished.
Alone we fight the pain, the loss, the sorrow,
While waiting for a bright tomorrow.
We try to understand words that feel so cold.
We try to forgive, we try to be bold.
We smile that smile.
We walk that walk.
We love unconditionally as we feel the pain of their talk.
We do desperately grieve inside,
And try to live as God abides.
For our pain and sorrow runs so deep,
So deep that no one can see us weep.
So grief they say, as they point their finger,
Get over it, it’s done, don’t let it linger.
But “we” know it doesn’t matter how many days go by.
Our hearts will always know how to cry.
So tell me, what is grief and who really knows,
How to do it and how it goes?
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