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I have seen the sword of anguish, as it seared its blinding wrath across the faces of millions. I have tasted the salt of their tears, released in painful droplets of anger and fear. I have watched the father, stooped and broken, as he speaks of the deeds of heroic sons. Ached for the void that engulfs the husband, as he listens to the plaintive sobs of the soulmate who knows she is lost. I have peered out through the wide eyed innocence of a child, hopeful, confused, afraid, then, gone. I have felt the fatigue of the broad-shouldered saviors who toil in disbelief, while numbing themselves to their pain. I tell myself… "It is too much;" that the price of survival is costly to pay. I ask the question: "Why?" in the morning when I face the day; upon home's return, when your presence is missed; in the middle of the night when I wake reaching, reaching, reaching. "Grief" is physical to me now, a gnawing volcanic mass that rises from the pit of my stomach and hurls its suffering up and out of me in so many screaming voices. "Time will heal," I tell myself, smoothing over the scars until they are merely a distant reminder of what you meant to my life. But, I WILL remember, always, in small agonizing sobs that I hide in that private part of me. And, you will be with me again, in part, in whole, inside of me, forcing to the surface what Is "right" in me, what is "might" in me, what I know you would wish me to do... |





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