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"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions"
- Edgar Cayce

takotsubo syndrome

8/3/2022

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 all the ghosts
hanging about 
my sad thought bubbles
trying them on to see
if my pain fits them
it does

i lose weight
in grief
all food tastes
like grey paste

i lose sleep
in grief
closing my eyes
means seeing
more grieving ghosts

sometimes they are helpful
other times not
the one next to me now
keeps cheerfully reminding
me that i could die from a
broken heart at any time
she says the japanese have 
a name for it but she forgets
she read it in a magazine
​when she was alive

my heart hurts now
i think its acid reflux
but my helpful ghost chimes
in that i am probably dying

one of them starts to clap
the other ghosts shake their head
at him
how awkward

i hold my broken heart
while the ghosts
wander around my 
bedroom pretending
they aren't waiting for me to die


1 Comment
JCS
8/4/2022 06:35:57 pm

Winston Churchill said " If you are going through Hell then keep on going". So keep on going because things will turn around. Your daughter may have left but she is not gone. Do not give up even though your daughter may have shunned you. Continue to be there for your daughter even if she does not show up today because she may just come back tomorrow. Giving up means you will be stuck in hell. Keeping on going means you will eventually get out.

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