Grief/Love

For A … our thoughts are with you.

Grief

with grief comes knowledge

knowledge that you loved; you love

therein lies solace

everything shifts and changes

the constant remains the same

Love

Audio at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHZEYnnBIw

Published in Strays. Available on Amazon.

Strays is a collection of two extended narratives and more than forty love-themed poems, exploring the meaning of romantic love while we have it and attempting to find the healing after its loss. Found within these pages is the short story Gutter Dog, the novelette Ginni, and the poems False Skin, the Boy Who Wore Clothes, and the Black-Wit Reveller.

Author's Note

We face so many tests of emotion in this existence: passion, grief, shame, anger, hate, and fear. As you get older, you realize most emotions, as intense as they may feel, will eventually fade to nothing. Given time, all emotions fade, all but one… love. But then love is no emotion. I speak not of roses and butterfly flips in the gut, but real immortal love. For even after the form fades away, the love goes nowhere. Underneath it all, that is what we are--love.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and "it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all"

i have had enough grief associated with love...but i have felt it...and that is important to me...and you express that so well in this short piece...

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Jacob.

[Rita L. Sev]

Wonderful sentiment here, Pryde. It is only because of love that we can feel grief... My brother made a similar observation when our father died: The thing that makes this so hard is the very thing that will get us through it. Great piece.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Rita.

[Cory Barrett]

"And in love we open ourselves to a pantheon of pain and pleasure, and we will know what life is."

Great write pryde, makes me smile and sigh in the same motion

[Pryde Foltz]

Thanks, Streamline. I hope the smile stays longer:)

[Chris Micha]

And love will be the healer of all things, even when it is the one that caused the pain. Pryde, this was so beautiful and I loved it.

:)

[Pryde Foltz]

Love is a healer:) Thank you, Christian.

[Lyn Anderson]

A profound piece and an inspirational and insightful note. Thank you for sharing this wonderful poem, which is so much more than greeting card placation.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, KL.

[Baby Ricochet]

Something like that. Good "peace" Pryde.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Mark. Believe it or not, it was all I ever wanted:)

[Coyote Poetry]

The poem is true. Grief and regret teaches us what is real. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Coyote.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome my friend.

[Marie]

Love cuses gref and heals it...I like that notion///

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Marie. Someone once said love cures all, the problem we keep confusing love with passion and infatuation:)

[willweb]

Your poem really struck home Pryde. Thank you so very much for sharing this. I am sure it will touch many. I know I enjoyed this today.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, will web.

[wordman]

and that is what we was created for loved the write

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Ron:)