Sorrow

Sorrow

Sorrow is
Sorrow was
Sorrow will be
Again
The heavy heart
Though unburdened
Will bear afresh
dumb weights of dull pain

Bereavement and loss
Like clingfilm moss upon the rocks
Of existence
Will raise medusa heads

Memory like dreadlock tendrils
Will remember grief anew
Time after time

Dead but never
Dying
Dying
But never dead.

Forgetting is a tender lie
An act of mercy
In our heads.

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