Grief, Pt. II

For those who are grieving a life of another or a life of their own.

Today, I welcome the tears.    For the hardest rains have always bloomed the prettiest flowers.     Today, I welcome the anger.     For a phoenix cannot rise without its flames.    Today, I welcome loneliness.     For it is a blessing to have someone to miss.    Today, I welcome darkness.     For life’s joys would not shine as bright without it.    Today, I welcome grief.     For it is proof that I loved—enough so, that I ache in their absence.    Its presence brings pain.    But it is a pain that I would welcome again and again.    For it shows that I lived.    And that I was touched by the life of another.    A reminder to my grief:    You are love enduring.