What is an elegy?
I had to look it up when I saw the word.
When I found out what it meant,
I felt a jolt inside as I realised
It was quite literally heaven-sent.
An elegy is a lament for the dead.
For the ones who are gone, are no more.
And something inside me died as well,
When I lost someone exactly five years ago.
My world changed overnight
And would never be the same again.
Went dark like someone snuffed out my light,
And you don’t know if it’ll ever come back on,
Or when.
But it does, slowly but surely.
The light is never really gone, at least not once and for all.
The waves of grief do return now and then
And rightfully so,
But they come further apart, and each time they do
They’re slightly less tall.
Death and grief go hand-in-hand,
But they have a beauty we can try to understand.
To say so is probably a strange thing,
But as I heard someone once say,
“What is grief, if not love persevering?”
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