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

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This was very well said Pryde:) That same love can cure all things if we use it. We all were gave tools at hand to make a world see a better light. That's how I feel anyways.

[Pryde Foltz]

I do think you are right. Thank you, Jonathan.

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Welcome Pryde my dear friend:)

[kublakhan27]

I suppose grief is a form of love as well...at least that's what I will tell myself to kick back the sadness...you've said much in a small piece here Pryde, well done.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Steve.

[Frieda P]

Indeed, I felt this one Pryde.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Frieda.

[Einstein Noodle]

love the bookend wisdom and a very compassionate poem ... and i enjoyed reading your note almost as much .. true true so very true .. i hope "A" is finding solace .. :(
E.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, E.

[Lydia Shutter]

Grief and love are intertwined at times. It is because we love deeply that we grieve when someone passes. Do emotions all fade? I am not sure of that. I think perhaps we allow them to hide during periods when the emotions are too intense to deal with. When the monumental weight of emotions is too much to bear, we allow them to fade for a while....yet they do reappear. We are love.....I liked that concept.....your poetry is deep and wise, Pryde. Lydi**

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Lydia. Lovely review. As to the others disappearing, you do have to be willing to let them go. Let them go; and then you really feel the love …

[Sami Khalil]

Sorry for the loss. But love will always be especially the immortal one like you stated in this wonderful poem. We do hold dear to the precious or priceless humans and things in their loss. Bravo...................

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Sami.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome...:)..................

[Avinash]

Knowledge is the best healer which takes things to the level of wisdom and in that place there is no sorrow.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Avinash.

[Luke L]

Hmm lovely stuff, I was expecting more silliness, but maybe I read the wrong one, I also was inspired and wrote something much sillier

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Luke.

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

You know love can come and love will go from our lives, it is what we take from every relationship that helps define who we are… loved you train of thought on this poem.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Rock and Roll. Romantic love, particularly the loss of it, can be a lesson teacher, for sure.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

I know of what you speak my friend, you are welcome.