POEMS ABOUT GRIEF, COMFORTING > Comfort

COMFORT

 
I embraced her
kissed her tears
drenching my lips 
and the pillow
then held her
to rock her to sleep
calm the grief
hoping her pain
faded soon.


HENRY L. JONES
(From RUN INTO BLACKNESS: FEELING MY POETIC GUMBO, Pneuma Publishing International, Inc. © 2010)

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