Excellent Sonnet describing after the loss. Wonder : After by Michelle D. Carr Sonnet Poetry Contest contest entry

You're out of reach with no more words to speak. Your sadly silenced voice by death was thieved. Your face seen only in my dreams, so bleak, appearing without joy in life, I grieved.   A heavy coat of sadness kept me cold. Compelled but facing hopelessness, I tried to break out from this fearful stranglehold.  Could I embrace the pain and bid good-bye?   But grief will act with mercy in its time. It is the ruler of the healing heart. The welcomed memories begin to climb, and mornings bring new meaning to impart.   The blows that death delivers can derange, But hope and faith can soften any change.   Author Notes Old losses thought resolved can return with new ones. Loss brings changes and there is never a real return to the past.

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