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

[Troy Henson]

Yes Pryde...told so well in few words. Many things come our way and challenge who we are on different level. However love comes and the emotions and state of play sit with us for many years. Love has an intensity about it that scars. Wonderful write.

Regards
Troy

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Troy. Just a small point of dissension. Passion and love are not really the same thing. It is a lesson I have learnt recently. Very easy to confuse the two, however. But passion is a biological and psychological state that sees to our continued existence as a species, romantic love if you like. It exists with its duality which is hate and it can be a doozy of a scarer. Love only heals. Have a good one, my friend.

[A. Amos]

Short and to the point...great job

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, AA.

[A. Amos]

You're most welcome

[redflutterby]

Oh my....I'm completely speechless Pryde...really beyond words...

Thank you for this wonderful thought...x

[Pryde Foltz]

My pleasure, Red. You are loved by all of us:)

[redflutterby]

My heart is moved....I would hug you if my arms could reach that far! And the live is returned...

[Pryde Foltz]

Hug, hug:)

[J. Kell]

I love this. The short style is beautiful and to the point which I love. Your words are full of truth. Great Poem.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Justin.