On Grief

For my friend on July 29, 2009.

Were grief the end of this life,
the rivers of our tears
would not be enough
to quench the desert of our souls.

Had death the final answer,
perhaps our questioning would cease –
along with our motivation, and
our pursuit of something better.

Were pain the deepest cutting
of all feeling and emotion,
what could bring relief and healing
for such a wound?

Grief is not the end.
Death does not have the final answer,
and where pain is deep,
there is a love that runs deeper still,
wiping away every tear,
bringing promise of restoration,
and a different sort of end –
a beginning.

~ by merylherr on August 5, 2009.