Grief is a sucker punch when you're already down

Blinding with no light and deafening with no sound

Love only remembered is brutal pain

Yet it is injury from which we cannot abstain

No matter how we travel grief will always come

Whether we grieve for loss or that which never was

But I say it is a strength not a flaw

To grieve is to love and to love is to live

We grow too hard without that love to give

Some let the grief harden thinking it a shield

Some collapse into it forgetting what is real

Always we feel it no matter the wound it makes

Always at the end of love there is heartbreak