Friday, October 23, 2026

Familiar Stranger

 Every grief becomes its own creature,

a familiar stranger, 

individual as a fingerprint,

independent as it comes and goes.

It cries in the morning

like a baby

and aches and groans at night

like an old wound.

It wanders in unexpected

with the face you know,

but sometimes it just sits

unseen and

you sit with it, 

sharing the memories of what was

and the future things that will not

be.

It's nothing to fear.

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