Love and Grief - Gina Puorro

[Lawrence Robinson]

Love and Grief 
 
What if grief and love are the same?
Perhaps grief is the container
And we can only love as much as grief can hold.
A cavern carved deep into the chest
Echoing with the emptiness where love has lived
And was lost
And will live again.
Broken hearts are cracked wide open
Stitched back together with grace and gratitude
Able to hold deeper depth
And greater capacity.
The courage required to love
Is the same
As the courage required to grieve.
The enormity of it all
A force that cannot be controlled or predicted
And demands to remain messy
And free of any language that tried to define it.
Tears, and more tears, and more tears
Because you are water
And there is an ocean inside you
Marking your face with salt
And memories of the happiest of times
Flowers, for all the beauty and joy and warmth
And for the fragility and impermanence of it all.
A lump in the throat
The holds all that was expressed
And all that went unspoken.
I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.
The gravity of sadness
That keeps you tethered to the earth
And lets you appreciate the weightlessness
Of pure joy.
And alchemy of the soul
All the ash left behind
Becoming fertile soil and rich humus
Watered with tears and resilience
Fed with prayers and laughter
Opening, widening, expanding
into what now has space
To bloom.

	- Gina Puorro
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