Thought for the Day

[. . .] Perhaps grief is how we exhaust / our reach for things

that have gone, / and acceptance is how we slowly / learn

to hold ourselves in / the middle of the storm.

~ Mark Nepo

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Quoted from "Though Loss Is Everywhere" in The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meaning: Three Books of Poems (SoundsTrue, 2016), page 107

Mark Nepo, Poet, Teacher, Storyteller