A Saturday Poem

Feb 24, 2024

Day 9

One Poem A Day

Castle Point Books, 2019

Prompt: Write a poem about grief.

Our Hearts

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Is grief love?

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Or is it pain,

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deep, aching, forever pain?

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Can grief become hope?

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Or is it perpetual despair,

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a dark spasm of endless despair?

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Or….

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Is grief able to contain it all:  love and pain and hope and despair?

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Our hearts are miraculous organs.

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Pumping blood to and fro,

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keeping us upright and breathing.

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Our hearts remind us we are alive,

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loving,

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mourning,

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laughing,

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weeping.

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Living.

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