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Grief bores holes

2019 May 4th

Grief bores holes
in our hearts & heads
like a woodpecker
— peck peck peck
— knock knock knock
You can’t make it stop
Eventually it flies away
— but leaves pits
that never fully heal

—Terri Guillemets

Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags death, emotions, grief, loss, melancholy, metaphor, mind, poems, self
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