Grieving

Grieving

4/24/20

Today the entire world is grieving.

We have lost

Some very valuable pieces of our lives.

Some of us lost people.

Our hearts

As a collective

Go out to them.

Some of us lost jobs

A place to go daily

A sense of purpose.

Some of those who lost jobs

Collect unemployment

Or are not sure if they qualify.

They have lost security.

All of us have lost security

Of one kind or another.

There is no guarantee

Of money

Of food

Of our things that we have coveted

Most of our lives.

But most of all,

We all have lost

The easy ability to hug

Those who we usually hug.

Our friend,

Our adult children,

Our parents who live elsewhere,

Our friends who we meet

At the store

At church

At the dog park.

This is grief

And it is real

And it deep.

If we ignore it

And stuff it down

And put on our smiles

For our zoom meetings

And our hangouts with friends

On Houseparty and FaceBook video chats;

If we do not look at it

Squarely in the face

In OUR faces,

Then we suffer.

The energy of that grows and accumulates

Until we break down

And become useless

To comfort others

Because all we can do

Is beg to be comforted

By our own one smiling plastic face.

Instead,

Be vulnerable.

Contact that one friend

Who you can cry with,

Who will love you no matter what.

If you feel like there is no one

That fits that description,

Call a life coach.

No money?

Call the coronavirus hotline.

We need you.

We need your beauty.

We need your heart.

We are in this together.

Breathe.

Then

Grieve.