Tag: grief

Remain

I stay here,rooted in the placewhere you left me,not because I can’t move,but because I won’t. There’s a quiet in staying still,a kind of comfortin pretending nothing has changed. Maybe it’s easier this way,to remainwhen everything elsehas already moved on.

Six Years

Today is my grandma’s death anniversary. It’s been six years, and I only know how many years exactly because earlier today, I scrolled through my dad’s Facebook, searching for that all-black profile picture he had put up back then. And…

It Comes in Waves

Christmas and New Year’s have always been special times for me, and I used to look forward to those days since it meant I would get to visit my grandma. She was born on New Year’s Day, and the holidays…

Lola, It’s The End of As We Know It

The leaves have fallen and the winds have blown The coldness of winter has settled in The season of you will never come again The memories of you linger in my mind Like a warm embrace on a cold winter’s…

Losing Lola

An empty house, once filled with life Now just a shell, a lonely sight. Memories haunt me in every room Of all the joy, the love, the bloom. I roam the halls, a ghost of what used to be A…