Grief is a place




Grief is a place

Full of memories and tears

Walled in by unspeakable vines

That connect us to our loss


To leave that place

Is to still be corded to

The past

But the pain becomes more bearable

And the walls become windows

To our connection


I’m still waiting to leave this place

And time will lead me out

But nothing will uncord me

From those windows

And the love that connected me to that place



By Chrissy Bell

“‘All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story
about them.’”
Isak Dineson qtd. in Phelps and Emig 411