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Feeling Fucked Up
by Etheridge Knight
Lord she's gone done left me done packed / up and split /
and I with no way to make her come back and everywhere the world is bare bright bone white crystal sand glistens
Always a Sibling: The Forgotten Mourner's Guide to Grief
by Annie Sklaver Orenstein
“The weight is often invisible to others, but not to me— or to you. We move forward and try to rebuild our lives, but just because we carry the weight doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy.”
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.”
When Things Fall Apart
by Pema Chodron
“Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.”
Pushing Through
by Rainer Maria Rilke
It’s possible I am pushing through solid rock
in flintlike layers, as the ore lies, alone;
I am such a long way in I see no way through,
The Wild Edge of Sorrow
by Francis Weller
“There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive. Through this, I have come to have a lasting faith in grief.”
Nothing is Lost
by Noel Coward
Deep in our sub-conscious, we are told
Lie all our memories, lie all the notes
Of all the music we have ever heard
And all the phrases those we loved have spoken,
The Thing Is
by Ellen Bass