Underneath the weight of knowledge learned
I seem to be reduced and paralysed
For I had thought the painful loss would turn
And fill me with his love unpetrified.
For a moment, we may often ask
When sudden shock invades the unarmed heart.
But “give me years” makes tangible the task
For some , the mourning ends before it starts
That in this world there is an empty space,
Never to be filled but lived beside
Makes some feel angry, and afflicted by disgrace
Makes the themes of grief and pain elide.
I feel inert like marble on a beach.
Light and absence will my sad heart breach..
