Rains come, pounding rooftops,
saturating every inch of soil
down to the deep.

Water creeps under floorboards,
pours past garage doors,
gushes into low-lying collection basins.

Bridges connecting small
country roads turn impassable,
the ones aging at the bottom

of mountains near abandoned
railroad tracks.
Grief is a sister to flood rain.

Holding hands, they roll
over restraining walls.
Together they stream, surge, cascade —

out over the land
of the heart, into valleys
of the mind, through the dark woods.

Grief is love uncaged —
overflowing, endless love.
Grief is love realized and released.

Grief is love let free.


From 100 Words: Small Servings of Whimsy and Wisdom to Calm the Mind and Nourish the Heart, (Balboa Press, 2018). Posted by kind permission of the poet.


Poetry
Terri Crosby

Terri Crosby

About the author

Terri Crosby is an author, speaker, and coach with a private consulting practice for individuals and couples. She believes improving relationships with others starts (and stays) with ourselves, and that it takes only one person to change a relationship. Connect with her work at incareofrelationships.com.