Reconciliation

by Alex Penuelas   Feb 19, 2018


I can't lie to you
and tell you that things
will get easier.

Because they really don't.

Time doesn't heal as well
As people think.

In truth, time really just
Numbs the pain;
It doesn't remove it.

All that really happens is that
we get accustomed to the pain,
as if it were that minor crack
that your knuckles do daily.

What I can say is that
these moments of extreme emotions
Will really get you to think a lot
about the small instances that
you and your loved ones shared.

And those instances will become
a thousand times more meaningful.

I can't give you any sort of reconciliation
that you may or may not meet them
in the next world (If there is one),
but what I can say is that
so long as you recollect on
all the things that you have done with them,
then they will never truly die.

Stay strong.

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  • 6 years ago

    by Milly Hayward

    Alex, when first reading this I get your heartbreak coming through. The belief that goes hand in hand with unresolved grief that makes you feel like it's never going to go away. That numb feeling that comes after the shock. Each memory revisited like a knife renewing the wound.

    Then in the last stanza the musing of whether or not there is truth in the thought you may one day meet your loved one again. For me the best part of this piece was there right at the end. The message of hope and that perfect crystal truth that whilst you hold the memory of your loved one and the things you have shared....then they never truly die.
    That single thought was filled with wisdom and hope and was what made gave force and resolution to the whole poem for me. Best wishes Milly x

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