Out of my ignorance, I called you my homeland and I forgot that homelands are taken away..

Why does grieving feel like it will never end

To feel close again..

We may go on loving one another forever
And yet never again

They’re just memories now

you can decorate absence however you want but you’re still gunna feel what’s missing

But when you’ve loved someone, some version of it lasts. It keeps being important. It lives somewhere within you, and in that way, you carry the people you’ve loved along with you, not just in your memories, but in the person you are.

Mary McCoy