The depths to which is possible to feel
Is deeper than what you would take as real.
Most of us feel we’re adequately defensed
With safety measures to what we’re against.
Until it happens there’s no way to know
How deep your feelings were, how strong a blow.
We mourn what we now know we have no more;
With little emphasis on the real score.
For what that person did to you was taught!
So what was learned now missing, it is not!
Eventually “Remember when?” will gain its place;
And then you find it easier to face.
The end result–though it may take a while —
You will again feel what it’s like to smile!
© Richard Williams