On Grief (2/7/84) From My Book "Til Death Did Us Part'

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    • Gramma2
    • is raising her grandchildren

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    This was written a month after my husband, age 40, died of pancreatic cancer. I self published a poetic journal a year later, and this poem is from that book.

    On Grief (2/7/84) From My Book "Til Death Did Us Part'

     I can't tell you my sadness.
    It pours out of the words in which I try to contain it.
    I can't show you my sadness.
    It would frighten you with its terrible ugliness,
      and most of you would turn away.
    I can't put away my sadness.
    It has soaked through every pore of my skin
       and flooded inside me.
    So I will pretend to live each day
      until enough time has passed
        and shrunk this great sadness
            to a mere puddle in some corner of my heart.

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    nytwind16 commented on On Grief (2/7/84) From My Book "Til Death Did Us Part'

    06-29-2011

    It's honest and touching..It reaches out to the readers..great job!
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    chopkins123 commented on On Grief (2/7/84) From My Book "Til Death Did Us Part'

    09-20-2010

    I LIKE THE LINE IT FLOODED INSIDE ME. REALLY TOUCHING AND REALISTIC. I KNOW THE PAIN. GOOD WORK
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    ccslim commented on On Grief (2/7/84) From My Book "Til Death Did Us Part'

    11-11-2009

    Nice touch! I felt hiddenness but see. I eased through fluid and touched! Great write!
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    Gramma2

    11/11/2009

    Thank you. It is so gratifying to hear from other poets. Now i will look up YOUR poems.

    Poetry is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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