When you’re used to seeing someone day after day, for years on end, and then suddenly they’re gone, you
—Terri Guillemets
loss
Holes & tears
Missing you isn’t just an empty void — it’s what-ifs and questions and endless thoughts and bittersweet memories and runaway feelings and emotions that can’t get a hold on anything physical so just slip and slide around my mind, and hide and re-emerge.
—Terri Guillemets
Cold is relative
When you’re shivering with loss, let love keep you warm with memories.
—Terri Guillemets
Middle
A headstone is just a bookmark in our unfinished lives.
—Terri Guillemets
May you
May you lose a lot that matters to you
a few times in your life
May you make and remake and
remake yourself over and again
and burn yourself right down
to ashen smoking embers
of bone and grit and soul
So that you may always know
the pain of rock bottom
the freedom of rebirth
the hope of revival
the gift of perspective
the awareness of your strength
May you lose but live again
—Terri Guillemets
Early morning goodbyes
Death is never a clean break — some stardust always remains.
—Terri Guillemets
Connections
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
—Terri Guillemets
A final breath in winter
Dying ain’t pretty. Death is beautiful.
—Terri Guillemets
Immeasurable
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
—Terri Guillemets