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Dried tears flaking on the skin, mourning their loss as they chip away. The emotion they carried remains, heavy and painful but invisible, pressing and pressing until breath is short and life becomes suffocating. Loss is heavy, crushing, crushing, but all you see is flaked away tears and a watery smile, as life carries on.

The first week was pain, an agonishing sting to the heart that struck over and over. Nothing eased it, you could only be consumed. Distractions were the key, later, to functioning with a normal life again. Don’t think, don’t react, just keep going, with jobs that don’t need doing. The loneliness will become bearable, oneContinue reading “Rough poem (Six weeks)”