What to do
When your lifeline
Gets taken from you
Gets swept out under your feet?
Step one: You mourn
You cry so loudly
You scream so quietly
And you wonder why you always say
You're fine
When someone asks.
Step two: You get angry
You wonder why
Such a wonderful person
Had to be taken from you
Why did your heart
Have to shatter?
Step three: You try to forget
You try to forget the person
The way his Cologne smelled
Or how he made coffee every morning
Or the way he smiled when he was doing something he loved.
Step four: You wait
You wait
But you don't know what for
Some it's the salvation of death itself
Others
It's finding someone to make the pain less
These steps
May not mend a broken heart
But it can keep it
From falling apart.
- Danielle Pretorius
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