Words On Grief

The opposite of grief is eternity.
It is being able to hold onto the love that we feel forever.

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It is being able to feel the warmth of a joy, always,
and not its gradual fading away.

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Grief is like a stranger who has moved into our heart,
and made themselves a home there.

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It is like the feeling of cold hands,
like colour fading from a photo.

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It is being soft,
and frail,
and new,
a child again,
born for the first time.

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— David Alexander