We see grief approaching
A heart we love
Our friend
Our child
Our parent
Our neighbor
Helpless to prevent the collision
To step between
And take the blow
Wouldn’t you know
That it passes through
We feel the ricochet
And our heart hurts too
We can sit there only
In love and patience and wait
Being present
In grief as in love as in laughter
Life steam rolls everyone once
In a while
Devestating
Sadness
To step between worlds
Yours and ours
To step between griefs
To step between shores
Across an ocean engulphed
To step between body and spirit
Between mind and heart
To cross caverns and mountains and forests
Spanning generations and years and moments
Bridges of love
Slippery stones in the river
We love and we risk and some days we lose
Heart
Hoping in time we can make room
For more love and more light
And feel less the pains of this life
