Death is not as clinical as it is often portrayed. There is no way to mentally prepare for the grief which accompanies the loss of someone we loved. Loss is never expected, and it is often difficult to process and ultimately accept. The human mind can create defense mechanisms to deal with circumstances it does not wish to accept. Grief can manifest itself in many ways such as denial, anger, ignorance, fear of the unknown. The human heart is fragile and can find it challenging to navigate its way through a multitude of emotions that come rushing in all at once. After personally losing someone and having to face these hurdles alone and being truly overwhelmed by grief I started writing to channel my emotions instead of keeping it all pent up inside of me. Grief is quite a personal journey and I found myself writing this collection of poems as my coping mechanism. Somewhere in-between it dawned on me that there are so many people out there who face the same struggles I did and possibly felt just as secluded from the rest of the world. In publishing my innermost thoughts and feelings I have only one goal and that is to ensure others, that in your time of grief... You are not alone
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