Grief Poem - How Long, Oh, Lord, How Long?

Grief may be normal, natural and necessary, too;

It doesn't make life easier, 'because we're missing 'you'!

Our hearts do ache – we have no peace; built-in response is shock.

Someone we loved has gone ahead; we can't turn back the clock.

We're dazed, confused, our minds may blur, we'll shed more than one tear,

No longer can you call or come, but we still sense you're near.

To grieve, we must – or grief's unhealed; we need to share and care;

But DON'T compare – we need our time; we know that life's not fair.

My tears are words I've sent above to tell the Lord my pain,

We give and take, comfort, support, 'cause each of us will gain.

We're incomplete for you are gone; we're forced into new role;

No longer 'our' – we're just an 'I' – we feel no longer 'whole'.

Oh yes, you're missed and deeply loved though months have flown by,

During that 'time' we did our best – you were our special guy.

But God's with us in Valley's dark – He's there to be our friend.

With troubled heart and loneliness, He's with us to the end.

Psalms six, verse three, speaks a great thought, though It's a sad sad song;

"My soul is in deep anguish, Lord; how long, O LORD, how long?"

Right now, the gulf is very wide between our faith and pain,

But someday soon when God says so, we'll be with you again.

We're born to die; you went ahead but we are coming soon!

God's Word says so, He promised us, be morning, night or noon.

Our lives are like a ticking clock and soon we, too, will go,

We'll love and cope and then we'll leave like lovely sunset glow.

17 July 2024 © Prairie Winds.