When you know someone is going to die soon, the waiting curls up inside your body. It feels like a wet rag or sponge. There it expands until you think you can't take it anymore. Then the person dies. Then you are left with a black hole and nothing to fill it with.
This is very wise, very well-stated, and very true.
ReplyDeleteThis is true. If you are lucky, in time the empty hole of grief refills and floods with memory, drip by drip.
ReplyDeleteGretchen
Yes. Divorce is like that, too. Teagrapple
ReplyDeleteTheresa, I am sorry to hear that some one close to you has passed away. MarianV
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry.
ReplyDeleteI remember the great scene in Terms of Endearment, after Emma has died, and her mother says "What was I thinking? I was thinking it would be a relief, but she's gone!" I've paraphrased it badly, I'm afraid, but you get the idea...it's always hard to lose someone...
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry to hear that you have experienced such a loss.
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