These days when the torrents of grief flood deep,
when sorrow pools like blood on the floor,
in these days when I can do nothing but meet this moment,
when I am too spent to say hello,
love comes to meet me where I am.
It holds me while I cry. It cradles me where I sit.
It steps with me as I walk. There was, at first,
a moment when I tried to push it away,
alarmed by this onslaught of love.
Too much, I protested, arms up in resistance,
but love obliterated my no.
It moved in to hold me from the inside,
slipped into my tissue, my bones,
infused itself into each tiny cell, each organelle,
and made inside me a home. Since that moment,
I am never alone. Now it is love that moves my hand.
Love that shapes each word. Love that helps me rise.
Love that pours the tea.
Love that wakes with me in the middle of the night.
Autonomic love that makes the heartbeat,
autonomic love that makes the lungs breathe.
autonomic love that meets the impossible grief
and surrounds it with impossible grace.
Love that grips me around the heart
as if to save me from drowning.
Love that murmurs again and again,
Iβve got you, Sweetheart, Iβve got you.
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
So precious to be held by Love that way, so beautiful to read about Love the way you describe it!
The authors name is below. Her name escapes me now but she did capture how she felt vividly. π
This is absolutely beautiful.
It surely is. π
Love this!
Glad you do. It is a beautiful poem.
And a beautiful ‘inside’ it is, thank you for sharing β€οΈ ππ½ π¦
I was drawn to reading it more than once. Youβre welcome. ππβοΈ