100 Days Of Grief
D.K Sheppard's Unofficial Keep It 100 Challenge
Petal blush rays,
Penetrated my weary eyes, a tired haze.
I hear Alexa’s automatic voice,
Announcing the date with quiet rejoice.
My foggy brain clears,
As rapidly as a car switches gears.
It’s been a hundred days,
Since your soul departed from this very room.
A heartbreaking goodbye,
To watch my vivacious parent die.
Grief stays with me,
Like flowers being attacked by a hundred bees.
Pulling myself out of bed,
Memories dance in my head.
We tried hundreds of ways to keep your elderly heart beating.
Glancing around my cheerful bedroom,
A hundred different scenes play out in your once sick room.
Your love for me, and mine for you,
Will wrap around me like a blanket, seeing me through.
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For D.K. Shepard's Keep It 100 Challenge
About the Creator
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH5 days ago in Critique
Comments (7)
My great condolences to you and your loss. towards the end I really felt that connection and loss intertwining.
Very emotive… captures grief well. Lovely to en, focussing on precious memories.
This is so heartbreaking and beautifully written! I love how you woven such vivid particulars with such powerful emotional phrases. I'm fortunate that both of my parents are living but as they grow older I know this morning is coming for me
Beautiful. You do have I hope many good memories to remember.
Oh, this is so heart-breakingly beautiful, Daphsan. Losing a parent is hard and you put the grief and loss into beautiful words that will help others as well.
I like the way Alexa lends a little present-day realism here!
Sad, and relatable. Well done, Daph!