Poem: Goodbye to Grief

“Goodbye to Grief”

I had to say good-bye to the grief of losing you—
not because I stopped missing your name
in the quiet hour,
not because my hands forgot the weight
of holding memory.

But I grew tired of letting sorrow
build its house inside my chest,
each sigh a window,
each tear a door
left open to the wind.

I told the ache: you may rest now.
You’ve sung your hymn in every season.
You’ve painted loss in shades
that even morning couldn’t hide.
But love—
love deserves more than mourning.

So I kept the part of you
that still blooms in laughter,
the flicker of your smile
in ordinary things—
a scent, a song,
the way light leans into dusk.

Grief, I release you,
not to forget,
but to remember more gently.

You are not gone—
you are changed.
And so am I.

Thank-you for reading.

Remember there are many paths back to God.

Follow your own path,

Brenda Marie