Exceptional I share the grief of WWI widows and mothers. Her Grief Is Mine by RodG      Empathy with Grief Contest Winner

Her grief is mine-- the young bride in the small French village whose husband left to fight and died, never knowing he'd sired the child still growing In her womb. I hear her wailing, visualize the endless nights she cried. A few years hence dark-haired daughter now three kneels at her mother's side planting pink roses on her daddy's grave, without a notion how or where he died. A decade, maybe two pass and mother has come alone. Bowed head gray, she kneels beside her husband's grave. Silently she weeps and vividly recalls that horrid day she became a widow, felt the sudden pain and cried Writing Prompt Write a poem of any style that shows empathy for the grief of another human being. There are no line length requirements. Empathy with Grief Contest Winner Recognized Author Notes This painting is titled GRIEVING WOMAN IN SMALL FRENCH VILLAGE 1917. The artist is likely Laplau Janssen who was Danish. Courtesy of Google images. I grieve for all the mothers and widows of that generation of young soldiers lost in the Great War a hundred years ago.

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