Loss

Reference: When you lose a loved one…

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I see you… fragile, trembling.
Stitched together by strands of something you can’t name.

You think you’ve lost them, don’t you?
That they’ve slipped into some great void.
A place you can’t touch.

But that’s not how it works.
Not really.
Listen… you aren’t meant to “move on”.

Whoever told you that has never known the gravity of love.
It isn’t a path to walk away from… but a root that grows deeper.

Twisting through you.
Holding you steady even as you break.

They’re not gone.
They’ve only… dissolved. Yes.
Like sugar stirred into water.

They’re everywhere now.
In the hum of the air around you.
In the strange stillness that wraps you up when you think you’re alone.

Do you feel that ache in your chest?
That’s not emptiness.
That’s the shape they left behind.
Reshaping itself into something new.

They’re learning how to be part of you…
and it’s a messy process.

You’re not just grieving them.
You’re becoming them.
Piece by piece.
The way they smiled.
The way they spoke.
The way they loved you so fiercely it carved holes in the fabric of time.

All of that is yours now.
They gave it to you and you don’t even realize it yet.

So… here’s the truth:
you’re not losing them.
You’re absorbing them.
Every breath. Every step. Every tear.
It’s them.

Moving through you.
Finding ways to remain.

You are their legacy.
Their echo.
Their home.

Let yourself feel it.
All of it.

The sorrow.
The longing.
Even the anger.

Let it hollow you out.
Because only in that hollowing can something new take root.

And one day, when you’ve grown used to their weight inside you…
You’ll find they’re not a burden at all.

They’re a part of your rhythm.
Your pulse.
Your life.

You don’t have to let go.
You just have to keep living.

They’ll take care of the rest.