Topic Tags: grief

“The children of Abraham, / bowing their heads / to bury the past and join hands in grief.”

“May the One who makes peace in the heavens / Bring peace to us, to our children, / To our communities, And to this broken world.”

“How do we know what will outlive us? / We all want to be remembered our lives to count for something…”

“Where I was planted, I took root and was uprooted…”

“May joyousness fill our hearts, May food once again satisfy, May we all sit together, living.”

A powerful ritual for when you have lost an animal companion

“May his/her dreams / be fulfilled / in every one of our breaths…”

“When my grandfather died, his body swelled again / fluid filled him, drowning him from inside.”

“The death of a sibling too is unique. It ignites our own vivid / sense of mortality.”

“And still, here we are again / clutching to an ancient book / that has traveled through time / from bitterness to joy…”