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Words for the Journey

Discover a sanctuary of perspectives, tools, and shared experiences written for people living with grief.

My Father, My hero

TammyEisenberg
TammyEisenberg
Here I am and would give anything to hear youI would give a big hug so tightI would have helped you make it rightSo many demons and dark issues would appearYou were so strong you never shed a tearWe were so much alikeIn so many waysI was your mini meUp until the very next dayI'll always love you my dad my best friend
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The Letter Every Caregiver Should Write

KarynArnold
KarynArnold

The Letter Every Caregiver Should Write

Life doesn't come with a manual, and neither does caring for a loved one who is dying. And yet so many caregivers I've met follow such a similar pattern of behavior, it would almost seem that instructions had been written for them to follow.

It goes a little something like this:

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Walking Away

TammyEisenberg
TammyEisenberg
If you cannot point your finger n like on the persons bday, you need to be cut out like cancer..Selfish and Arrogant is what you are, what is so sadYou won't get very far, no more running back to meMy life is a happy one and I was set freeTo be happy, to laugh and live my lifeYou know nothing about being a wifeToo Selfish to understand
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Dedicated to a Dear Friend

TammyEisenberg
TammyEisenberg
I've lost some battles but won the warits so importantsnd so much moreI strive each day to make a newa start to be a brand new youI'm excited to be all that I am and so much morelike I said I lost the battlebut I won the warI wake up each day and thank the Lordfor always showing me 
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In a moments time

TammyEisenberg
TammyEisenberg
in a moment in timemy world changed so fastill never forget how hard I workedto put behind me my pastmemories always remind meTime goes way too fastlove one anonther and make it lastin a moments timeyour life can change 1, 2, 3, I learned its bestto worry about meand of course my family 
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No One Said a Word

Gman8361
Gman8361
My dad died suddenly during Spring Break my sophomore year of high school. My family had disintegrated a few years before, and he was my world. I was stunned, and numb.
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Counting Time

dream1dancer
dream1dancer
I no longer count this time in seconds, minutes, hours, days or month. I count it in years. It is three years today, Jan 5 that my son died. Nothing in the years to come will change that one fact or anything about that day. it will always be there, always be the same. My heart hurts as much now as it did that first moment of loss.
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