Thaw..maybe

It is difficult to express - the feeling of losing a loved one and while we can sit and clinically say - the stages of grief - it seems to be a convoluted mess. We don't always move from one stage to another instead see-saw between them - cycle and re-cycle.. it is always Why? What if's? and if only !

Linda Pastan's narrative is too big and too near .. but here is an excerpt that just says...

Acceptance. I finally reach it. But something is wrong. Grief is a circular staircase. I have lost you.