girl who is going to be okay

We could say the pain

was a block so great

it could not be moved.

We could say love

did not try to move it.

Love simply dissolved the mass

and surrounded it

the way water meets a block of salt,

breaking apart each ionic bond

until every atom of sodium and chloride

is surrounded by molecules of water.

And in this way,

and sooner than you’d think,

the pain was re... See more

She meant, I think, that a love lost is grieved forever, whatever the nature of the loss — this she knew, and turned the ongoingness of it into a lifetime of art — but by looking back, we are reminded over and over that the sharp edge of grief does smooth over time, that today’s blunt ache is worlds apart from the first stabs, until grief becomes, ... See more

Let us agree

for now

that we will not say

the breaking

makes us stronger

or that it is better

to have this pain

than to have done

without this love.

Let us promise

we will not

tell ourselves

time will heal

the wound,

when every day

our waking

opens it anew.

Perhaps for now

it can be enough

to simply marvel

at the mystery

of ho

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