It's about haunting echoes of First pain, at anniversaries. It's about feeling her presence for an instant one day while I'm dusting her room. Its' about early pictures that invite me to hold her in my arms again. Its' about memories blown in on wisps of wood smoke and sea scent. Older grief is about aching in gentler ways, rarer longing, less engulfing fire.
Older grief is about searing pain wrought into tenderness.
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