How painfully succinct (which I suppose really captures the beauty of haiku). Thank you for sharing your grief. It must have been especially hard to feel honest about it.
Thanks for your comment Viet (: , thanks once more for appreciating. Grief is a deep emotion and it’s hard to ever feel you can see the bright side of things ever again. It feels like you pull everything including the sky itself down with you, closing off all opportunities. However, I started writing this from the perspective of the stars in the sky and only saw the duality of it once I added the picture!
It’s a duality that you’ve portrayed so effectively and directly if I may say so myself. Grief feels very much all-consuming, doesn’t it? And though as painful as it is deep, it does give you a grim reminder just how much you miss someone when they’re truly gone, don’t you think? Of course, your outlook on grief is just as poignant and powerful especially with the picture in play. Well done!
I agree in that it’s more effective with the picture in play. It semi-reminds me of an Asian funeral wake tent and how it looks like it’s the only thing alive in the scene because the grief from missing someone who is truly gone is so all-consuming. Thank you for your feedback Viet 🙂
read this as I sit next to my Dad in his hospital bed. profound.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you for reading Violet, I’m sorry to hear your dad is in hospital – I do hope he is okay?
LikeLike
he’s old. old age is horrible! thanks.
LikeLike
Oh dear, I’m sorry to hear that – it certainly is, but I hope you get to spend as much time as you can with him and make him smile as wide as he can
LikeLiked by 1 person
thank you so much, xx
LikeLiked by 1 person
How painfully succinct (which I suppose really captures the beauty of haiku). Thank you for sharing your grief. It must have been especially hard to feel honest about it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for your comment Viet (: , thanks once more for appreciating. Grief is a deep emotion and it’s hard to ever feel you can see the bright side of things ever again. It feels like you pull everything including the sky itself down with you, closing off all opportunities. However, I started writing this from the perspective of the stars in the sky and only saw the duality of it once I added the picture!
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s a duality that you’ve portrayed so effectively and directly if I may say so myself. Grief feels very much all-consuming, doesn’t it? And though as painful as it is deep, it does give you a grim reminder just how much you miss someone when they’re truly gone, don’t you think? Of course, your outlook on grief is just as poignant and powerful especially with the picture in play. Well done!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I agree in that it’s more effective with the picture in play. It semi-reminds me of an Asian funeral wake tent and how it looks like it’s the only thing alive in the scene because the grief from missing someone who is truly gone is so all-consuming. Thank you for your feedback Viet 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
And yet the stars and the sky continue to light and blanket us…we carry on for them. Beautiful as always, dear Sandra.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s a wonderful continuation to what I already wrote, Alice!
Yet the stars and the
sky, they continue to light
and to blanket us.
Hehe 🙂 . Thanks for your comment once again, I appreciate that you stop by!
LikeLiked by 1 person