eulogies

my grandfather believes he has died
because my grandmother is gone

i will always remember her voice
and i can see her
from when i was three years old
teaching
as she pushed the swing
back and forth
with me flying a little
closer towards knowing
what it means to be alive

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The process of eulogizing
is seeing what shards we hold
on to over years of dropping
the bowl of our memory
of putting it back together
weeping with glass in our hands
because it will never again be what we thought it was.

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