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Should your loss feel too great to keep at bay,
call up all the gains that fill your missing
piece - what could bring the smile back to your face
easier than a memory, misting
in your eyes? Simple but not simplistic
masonry, built brick by brick, but a glass
house breaking, its foundation intrinsic
to the whole, already knitting up fast
together. Decades, piled like dominoes -
the fall can't negate the joy in building
your tower high. The grief will come and go.
The joy will buoy you up unyielding.
So when it comes for you, feel not bereft;
the only sorrow left is for yourself.

Description
Should your loss feel too great to keep at bay,
call up all the gains that fill your missing
piece - what could bring the smile back to your face
easier than a memory, misting
in your eyes? Simple but not simplistic
masonry, built brick by brick, but a glass
house breaking, its foundation intrinsic
to the whole, already knitting up fast
together. Decades, piled like dominoes -
the fall can't negate the joy in building
your tower high. The grief will come and go.
The joy will buoy you up unyielding.
So when it comes for you, feel not bereft;
the only sorrow left is for yourself.