'They' say even the birth process is a loss and with life itself being so full of loss, one had better know how to process these in a healthy manner or risk the mental ramifications thereof.

The term 'complicated grief' comes to my battered mind with the help of my counselling diploma and iffy memory. I wrote a poem to further aide myself in the healing journey and share it now in hopes of benefitting another.

"Loss"

There is a death

No coffins bear

The end of life

Sight doesn't share.

Unfulfilled dreams

A wish deferred

The end of hope

That no one heard.

A friendship gone

A life once strong

To grieve an end

A pain too long.

No measured loss

When living part

A life gone south

Still breaks your heart.

To end a thing

Is sad you see

Sometimes events

Near buried me.

Bailey

A Moodscope member.