The moment of knowing loss

Is filled with so much emotion

The sudden emptiness

The stop of the current between you

 

Death will come to us all

At some point in time

But before it does

We will experience the loss of many

 

Mourning the absence

While being bombarded

With the memories

Both significant and ordinary

 

Their laugh, their smell, their touch

The ease of being silently together

And the loudness

Of being silly and playful

 

The closeness of those

Who also felt the loss

Close and heavy

Making it hard to even breathe

 

It is almost too much to bear

But day by day

Year by year

It eases, if only enough to go on

 

To look back and appreciate

Time you were given

And the gift

Of having them in your life