How I Miss You, My Sweet Girl
I miss you so much Kamila. They say that time heals, but the more that time passes, the longer it's been since I hugged you, talked to...
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On June 9, 2021, my 19-year-old daughter Kamila died suddenly in Kingston, Ontario - where she was going to University. We were so very close...
That day a huge part of me died, and I didn't have a clue about how to survive. This is my attempt to articulate how I’m doing it.
The Thing Is
BY ELLEN BASS
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you down like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.
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