TBD on Ning

Loss

Any kind...

Tags: bereavement, disappearance, farewell, separation

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Permalink Reply by metub4 on February 19, 2017 at 6:56am

as hope seems to wane

our deep seated memories

are over shadowed

keep those times of old

ever present for today

living with the past

Permalink Reply by metub4 on February 19, 2017 at 6:59am

goal of beating loss :

good times are immortalized

bad ones slip away

Permalink Reply by Angharad on April 8, 2017 at 9:31pm

he used to be is
he filled my world with sunshine
and now he is was

Permalink Reply by Angharad on April 25, 2017 at 1:17am

how sad my world is
there's no love, meaning, or hope
without you in it

Permalink Reply by Angharad on December 2, 2017 at 11:17am

my brother is gone
he left home when i was five
now he's gone for good

he was a nice man
choices and fate estranged us
i recall his hug

maybe future lives
will bring us back together
to be friends at last

RIP Thomas Starr King IV, I loved you even though I never really knew you.

Starr, my father, and my grandfather, 1968--all gone now.

Permalink Reply by Angharad on December 2, 2017 at 8:48pm

Permalink Reply by Angharad on July 19, 2020 at 5:04am

ambiguous loss
grief with no resolution...
a balancing act

Kudos to Dr. Pauline Boss, who pioneered the theory of ambiguous loss, for recognizing that resolution is not always possible. Resolution is a Western bias--we want to find answers, fix it, get on with it. In Eastern philosophies it's recognized that grief is a part of life--something many people live with day-to-day.

Permalink Reply by PartTimeBrewer on September 10, 2020 at 12:29pm