Grief Cleanses The Soul

Resentments, regrets, pent up over years

Bitter memories of a past that could have been

Time is ruthless, eroding hopes and dreams

Slights and broken expectations, settling beneath unseen

Easier to turn your head and close your heart

Stay blind to the hurt you cause

Its all justified, you have your justifications

The how, the why, who won and whose loss

Summers come and go, the heat will never turn to warmth

Like strangers sharing the silence, simmering slow

The cold winter settles like ice on hardened mountains

Waiting for an avalanche to break and flow

The hands that fate deals strikes someday

When grief takes its toll, the mind ceases to remain small

Remorse and guilt flow like tidal waves

The heart will then open to one and all

Like torrential rain washing away the impurities

Heat that creates a diamond from a coal

Loss and pain, are the greatest teachers in humanity

If you only allow, grief can cleanse the soul