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To Cope with Grief

January 30, 2015
By VelveteenWriter BRONZE, Montgomery, New York
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This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

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After I die, here is a plan
to aid you in managing grief
Upon reading this, place a ban
In your minds, make thoughts of me brief

Burn every word ever I wrote
Let not the future's children know
Wrap my memory in death's coat
Forgo my views to the wind's blow

For all of us emerge as aught
Humans are not timeless as stone
Timelessness by no one is bought
Dust becomes of spirit and bone

But if you must reminisce, remember the bad times only
Remember not feeling bliss, so your heart cannot be lonely

© Katherine A., San Antonio, TX

The author's comments:

Take this advice when I die; weep not, for my memory is ephemeral if you decide it to be.  Grief controls only the weak of heart.

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