This is a reminder I wrote for myself at 4AM one morning a long time ago. The hardest thing in the world is to grieve the break up of a friendship, a lover, a family, someone you love who still exists in the world but you cannot be in each other’s lives anymore. I keep this reminder to myself posted on my computer screen during the hard days when you remember them and it hurts like nothing else has hurt before. You wish the people who leave well, but the pain still comes to stay a while. It’s good to remember impermanence of all things. Even the wound of losing someone eventually closes and becomes a scar instead. #poem