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“I am no longer ashamed how for weeks, after, I wanted to be dead--not to die, mind you, or do myself in--but to be there already, walking amongst all those I'd lost, to join the throng singing, if that's what there is-- or the nothing, the gnawing-- So be it.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Sorrow Poem Mourning Afterlife

Book:Book of Hours: Poems

Source: Book of Hours: Poems

“It never ends, the bruise of being”

Grief Birth Sorrow

Book:Book of Hours: Poems

Source: Book of Hours: Poems

“Grief In the night I brush my teeth with a razor”

Poetry Loss Grief Sorrow Poem Mourning

Book:Book of Hours: Poems

Source: Book of Hours: Poems

“To lose someone close to you is to enter an experience no amount of forethought or hindsight can free you from. You must live through grief. You cannot outsmart it, nor think through the fact of someone's being gone, and forever. You must survive the sorrow.”

Thinking Death Loss Grief Sorrow Survival Mourning

Book:The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

Source: The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

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