Sidelined

Grief

takes you by the throat.

Slams you against an invisible wall.

You can hardly breathe.

Numbness takes over.

Dropped back into life ~

there is no desire to live.

Until

past joys start chipping away

at your frozen heart,

new joys sidle in from behind

to chip away a bit more.

A heart, once resilient and full of life,

frozen and numb with grief,

regains a happy belief in living

  ~ resilient to life once more.

“The emotion that can break your heart 

is sometimes the very one that heals it…”

~ Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight