grief – Jess Leigh Hanna

So This is Grief

So this is grief The mailman who knocks on your door with a parcel Do you open it, do you dare It says fragile, handle with care The last box you opened made you cry But they were happy tears, from the memories inside Of joy Of normalcy Of warmth But this time you open theContinue reading “So This is Grief”

Hard-to-Smile Hope

I love the holiday season. For me, it evokes memories of baking cookies, playing Christmas cassette tapes (*gasp*), putting lights around the house with my dad, decorating the tree…and spending every other day vacuuming the fallen pine needles from the carpet. There were Christmas parties and paper snowflakes and gingerbread men to be frosted, thereContinue reading “Hard-to-Smile Hope”