Your poem is a tender embrace for those navigating the holiday season with a heart heavy from loss. The acknowledgment that grief doesn't follow a prescribed calendar but rather unfolds intimately in one's heart is profoundly moving. Thank you for sharing such a deeply touching and beautifully written piece Mariah.
This is very powerful and quite beautiful. These times of festivity and feast can be so hard and challenging for so many! Thank you for shining light into the shadows.
This is very powerful and quite beautiful. These times of festivity and feast can be so hard and challenging for so many! Thank you for shining light into the shadows.
Thank you for reading. It can feel especially isolating and hard to find space for grief during times of celebration...the complexity of being human continues to stretch my heart.
Thank you so much for your beautiful words. Huge hugs xxx
Your poem is a tender embrace for those navigating the holiday season with a heart heavy from loss. The acknowledgment that grief doesn't follow a prescribed calendar but rather unfolds intimately in one's heart is profoundly moving. Thank you for sharing such a deeply touching and beautifully written piece Mariah.
I am grateful for this gift of a poem you have given the world, to ease someone else's suffering in a season where grief is so palpable.
This is very powerful and quite beautiful. These times of festivity and feast can be so hard and challenging for so many! Thank you for shining light into the shadows.
This is very powerful and quite beautiful. These times of festivity and feast can be so hard and challenging for so many! Thank you for shining light into the shadows.
Thank you for reading. It can feel especially isolating and hard to find space for grief during times of celebration...the complexity of being human continues to stretch my heart.
Mariah, Keep on stretching. The world is brighter for it!
Beautifully written 💗
I wrote a piece about grief and hope, I feel something along the lines or adjacent to yours. I hope you like it, I certainly enjoyed yours: https://open.substack.com/pub/sheilaiswriting/p/shifting-from-broken-beams-to-a-little?r=2uqaml&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I love the contradictions you’ve described in your poem. It is so tough to be human and so beautiful we can share this experience with each other. 💗
Thank you for reading and your kind words. It couldn’t be truer, being a human is so complicated and difficult, but there is beauty in connection 💗
This is incredibly beautiful Mariah, thank you for these words ♥️
Thank you Susie, I appreciate you! 🙏
So beautiful, thank you for this!
Thank you for reading! 💗
This is a wonderful hug during a complicated time. <3
Thank you for reading. I’m glad it offered some comfort! 💗
Thank you for this 🤍
Thinking of you darling.
Thank you for reading and for your presence here. 💗🙏