The Tasks We Face in Grief Surround…

Facing the Fear

Feeling the Feeling

Experiencing the Power

of the Dramatic Revealing

of the Distance in Relating

with which our Souls are Debating

Elating and Enlightening

as well as Sad and Deflating

Infatuation with Flames

that Simultaneously Burn

Increasing Pain, Awareness

and the Impulse to Learn

and Create Understanding

Integration of Story

Sought to Recreate or Restore

Each person’s version of Glory

Forged through the Fire

more Deeply Alive

Free to Suffer more Deeply

and also the Thrive

To Free a new Version

with our Loss made Intact

Not Free from the Pain

but Less Tied to React

When we’ve tried to Contract

to Stifle or Extract

Feeling from Instinct

We are bound to Impact

Ourselves and our Loves

Overt or Covertly

“I just Sought to Avoid

but Found that only Hurt me”

Make Peace with the Pain

Surrender to the Flow

The Way to find Health

Bodies already Know

Trust in the Pain, the Anger

and Worry

Trusting the Current

When the Climate is Blurry

Urgency is Profound

though there’s No Way to Hurry

the Fog will Subside

take Good Care as you Journey

Honor the Love

and Tie that was Lost

To Experience Joy

Does not come without Cost

We Really Do Feel

We Really Do Love

Human Connection Our Mandate

Nothing Valued Above

The Joy we received

Far out-values the Pain

but the Cruelty of Loss

is that’s what we’re Left and Remain

A Malleable Remanent

to Process and Reveal

Proactive Engagement

to allow Us to Heal

The Tasks We Face in Grief Surround…

By: William Adams

Created for International SOS Day

November 2019