Good Grief

Grief

Not just about starving babies and children

Not just about those who get bullied or killed

Just because

My grief is not just about losing family members

And loved ones to other states of being or venues

Not just about early childhood and whatever neglect

Or traumas this little body and heart experienced

No

Grief is much more than that

It socks me in the gut

Knocks me down to my knees

To grovel on the ground

To cry and scream

Feeling powerless and 

Unable to change

Some of what I would like to 

Change

That's the real grief

That I don't have control over

My body

My time

My energy

My loved ones

The world, its people

Its animals and other beings

Who suffer so much

Not much control at all

That's just true about being human

And though, that doesn't mean

I will stop trying to correct

Some of the hurtful things I do

Or say. I can try to influence what

Other people do or say that can

Crucify others

Injure and damage others but

No one seems to be able 

To change all that

I can leap into the spiritual realm

And try to stay there for as long

As possible, knowing

Feeling that we are intimately

Connected within and to the Divine

Merging in bliss

I can live there in

That bright white delicious place

Sometimes plummeting back to

Earth again

Beginning anew with good intentions and

A far better mood about life and love

Only to find myself cascading once 

Again to the tyrannies of technology

To the oppression I see and feel all around me

I sometimes slip into my most judgmental parts

Ot rather into hell, I call it

Good Grief is setting the stage

I hear these words, “Arise!

Keep connected to humans

To other beings

To the Divine

You can bring more 

Joy, more bliss, more love 

To all the world, Mother Earth

To the galaxies and to the

Infinite cosmos herself

You are eternal”

Inside those words I find my purpose

Why I came here in the first place

To improve my health and well-being

To contribute, to gather and

Connect with all living beings

Collaborate with others

Spread goodness, compassion and 

Love all around 

Everywhere I go

As a gardener

A midwife

A mother

A friend

Part of a community

A participant in all that is

Sharing seeds of what I know

And who I am

What I have learned about, like

How we can all live better

Creating more satisfying lives

More often

Good Grief

Not just for the faint of heart

Just another side of Love

Creating a whole 

The Holy