When people allow you to know about their pain and talk about it, take your shoes off. It’s a holy place.
Be humble, be kind when someone shows you vulnerability.
- Amani Albair
Art by Sandra Bierman
pain (3)
Grief is unpredictable, it comes in stages,
in the blink of an eye, our whole world changes.
To deal with the loss, we search for a way,
to help us get through, each harrowing day.
Denial, the first stage, is one of disbelief,
we have no idea, how to dea
The thing about grief is
it can never fully go away,
it greets me with
every new milestone
it grates at my heart
with every missed conversation.
A lifetime of “I love you”s
overflowing and overwhelming.
The hug I long for,
the advice I needed
the scars that t
