See You Again

I can't really write about it right now.  My heart is breaking for her family, her kids, my son.  I'm gonna miss her so much.  In memory of Brittany, I wrote this:

We All Have Our Losses

We all have our losses.

We grieve for them

Cry for them

They haunt us like fog sits over the meadow

Hanging over our soul just out of reach

But close enough to smell and feel

searing into our hearts the wretched pain

leaving it’s smoking brand buried into the flesh.

A constant reminder of past lapses in judgment

embedded in our skin screaming to us to remember.

I’ve seen the waves of grief in eyes.  Smelled

the stench of agony in the air.  Felt the sting

and aches of pain in a heart.

Losses, we all have them yet

If on a different plane we take ourselves there

It can find you above it.

The clearness. The fog shifts.

The blurry visions we came to know as reality

Are now gone.  The damage was done.

But now.  Peering across gentle waves

the limpid air has a pure fragrance.

Then we see.  We know.

We haven’t lost them

but found ourselves