Topic Tags: grief

“The world owed them better. / The world owed them more.”

Madeleine Sklar shares a ritual and poem for the grief of a miscarried child.

“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…”

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…”