Today feels suffocating The loss  The sadness The uncomfortable feelings that come with loss and sadness People say to breathe but how can I when my lungs don’t seem to work? If one more person tells me a platitude I might need bail money And yet I keep moving One foot in front of the…

My homework was to sit and grieve Dad.  Be still in my sadness.  In the pain.  I couldn’t get myself to do it.  When I sit and think of Dad my brain slams down walls so that I can’t go too far down the path.  But when I write about Dad, my brain can’t slam…