“Survival without preparation is just delayed chaos.” DeathGriefDyingSurvivalPreparationSurvivingGetting Through Author:Darnell Lamont Walker
“It’s okay to complain It doesn’t weaken you It softens you first around the mouth then the eyes That first breath is a thank you without airs You’ll swallow and it’ll go into your belly And your hands will clasp your throat but it’ll be too late because once it hits the blood your heart will have it and it’s okay there Mortally you will feel how it is to be whole and in ruins There you are Scream Roll in the aisles Cry Another breath Breeeeeeeeeeeeeathe And complain again you human Your wildness will die before you and it does not need permission to leave or forgiveness for leaving This is how you let us know you don’t want to be here any more than we want you here” DeathDyingComplainingWholenessDeathbed Author:Darnell Lamont Walker
“Mortally you will feel how it is to be whole and in ruins” DeathDyingRuinsThe End Author:Darnell Lamont Walker
“Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.” WarDeathFightingDyingRevolutionRevolutionary Author:Darnell Lamont Walker
“Death pulls people from our spaces so often and we accept it as our final payment for having been here and having lived, however big or small. We don’t always have time to notice how things have changed in the absence of some of them. But then death pulls away someone we love, and we find that time. In here, we notice everything; growing grass and fingernails, and songs that end in a minor key. We are too sad to do anything else but watch a clock, applying seconds, minutes, and hours to the trauma and the lacerations. Time, the forever healer, they say. We find the time to wonder how everyone else is moving on, around our paralyzed selves. Ourselves unsure of roads and trees and birds and things. It all blurs and words aren’t words anymore. We find the time to attempt to figure a way to rethink everything we thought about this world and why we came to it.” DeathDyingDeath Of A Loved OneDeath And LoveDeath Of A Child Author:Darnell Lamont Walker
“I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.” LifeJobsDeathDyingLivingLiveEulogyHardworkWorking HardResume Author:Darnell Lamont Walker
“One day you will be the only one in the room not living.” LifeDyingLivingDeath And DyingDeath Of A Loved One Author:Darnell Lamont Walker
“Waking up in a room with no natural light does something to a man. no windows. I’m almost afraid to die. I fear my soul won’t make it out.” SoulDeathDying Author:Darnell Lamont Walker
“Love is who will hold you through the mourning.” LoveDeathRelationshipsLossGriefDyingSorrowGrieving Author:Darnell Lamont Walker