Bereavement
In reply to the discussion: My mom passed away Thursday evening. [View all]
TygrBright
(20,987 posts)...it's a kind of uprooting, a cutting-loose from the generation that gave you existence. An unbalancing. The longest set of shared memory and experience in your life is no longer there. Memory must take the place of presence, and memory feels like such an inadequate thing...
Her presence is gone but stay strong, she...
Stay strong and miss her.
Stay strong and grieve your loss.
Stay strong and say all the farewells.
Stay strong, and cherish the shared connections that will be offered as her life is acknowledged and her loss mourned.
Stay strong, and let yourself be weak.
Stay strong, and ask for help.
Stay strong, and don't be afraid to cry. Or to laugh.
Stay strong, and she will stay with you.
The empty place where her presence was will be as a well... and slowly it will fill with your sorrow, and your love, and your memories, and her love, which will never, ever leave you, even in the echoing emptiness of that place-where-presence-was.
I wish I could give you more than words, she.
May comfort find you, and consolation fold around you.
respectfully,
Bright
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