Always remember lost, so that you don’t take for granted found.
memories
Why we can’t let go
Regret is the glue that makes grief stick around for a lifetime.
Dear Yesterday
Dear Yesterday,
You begged to talk with me
but I am too busy with Today —
maybe we can catch up later —
if Tomorrow doesn’t treat me well
I will call to cry on your shoulder.
Paper doesn’t forget
We write to remember our nows later.
Inscribed
graves are not limited
to the cemetery —
they lurk in our minds,
and buried in our hearts
lie garlanded stones
marking loved ones lost
Playground
We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts.
Reflecting in the night
My wrinkles are a playground of happy memories.
Passed down
To journal is a present of the past to your future self.
Timekeeper
Grief is historian of the heart.
Chasing the past
Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future.
P.S. Thanks to Rebecca for letting me know that this quote was used in the television show Being Erica. In the episode “Plenty of Fish,”
Scraps
A scar is a memory from the scrapbook your body is keeping about you.
Fractal
shards of memory
jagged-edged
broken emotions —
wholeness
is the fossil
of childhood —
growing up
fractures
many things —
End of life
no matter which end-of-life decisions were made,
there are always regrets, there is always that guilt —
live parts of me holding onto memories of a dying you
dead parts of me holding onto living memories of you