Love, Loss & RelationshipPoetry

When We Don’t Want to Say Goodbye

By 5 October 2021July 29th, 20262 Comments1 min read
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When We Don’t Want to Say Goodbye

A short poetic reflection on love, immortality, grief and the memories that remain after someone we love dies.

Love is immortality.
Energising vitality, love
Expunges grief.
Casted into divinity
Memories & thoughts –
The loved who die.


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Related poem by Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886:

Because I could not stop for Death

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