Take a moment to gift yourself this silence.
To be in the stillness that you are and where your loved one now lives.
Do not seek to understand for you will never know.
Do not seek to fix your grief for it will run its course with or without your permission.
You may pray and offer up your prayers,
You may weep and offer up your tears.
You may hold and allow yourself to be held.
For there is strength in breaking down and breaking open at such a loss.
You've seen this person live.
You've watched them smile.
These are moments you will miss.
These are moments that are now memories.
And that creates a hole in your heart that nobody and nothing can fill.
This time will change things will ease the pain,
But it will not take away the love you shared.
How will you honor your loved ones legacy.
How will you ensure they live in your heart,
In your words,
In your actions,
In your soul.
Who have you become as a result of knowing them.
And how did you shape them in turn.
You are here for love.
And you had it.
They came for love,
And they lived it.
In their passing,
May you know the truth of who they were to you.
And the beauty of remembering.
May you know and relish the gifts savoring the sweet moments.
And for all the moments of friction.
May they be water under the bridge now.
There is a bridge between the land of the living and the land of those who no longer walk this earth.
You now know that bridge.
You now walk across both worlds,
Visiting your loved one and carrying them into this one.
They will not be forgotten.
They are not lost.
You have lost the form,
Their touch,
And new moments that you would want to create.
Nothing can make that right or fathomable.
But in this still place,
You can still find connection.
Invite them to smile with you now.
Invite the memory of their love to soften your heart,
Rather than letting the pain of their loss harden it.
Send blessings to all that they were and all that you were together.
It's okay if you don't accept this river of sadness.
The fact that they are departed.
The pain of not knowing where they are now.
Of not being able to hug them again.
It's okay that that does not feel okay.
Hold yourself now in your own grief.
Allow yourself to be supported by those who reassure you that you are not alone,
Even though this pain feels so lonely.
Know that your sorrow is holy.
Your grief is honoring what was and the life that passed between you.
The sparkling moment they had on this planet.
The existence you shared.
Without passing over any of the mourning.
Can you touch any gratitude for the gifts of the breath?
Of the life?
Of the memory?
Allow your mourning.
Allow your gratitude for the gift of their love.
Allow your sadness.
Allow your emptiness.
And allow the fullness of what is here.
In the echo of the life they lived.
In the resounding echo that you can amplify with how you hold their memory.
In the echo of the life they lived.
In the echo of the life they lived.
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