Candice Padden Poems

This is grieving alright.
Just, without the cards and without the flowers, without the cups of tea and sympathy and people 'just popping in' at all hours just
'TO CHECK THAT YOU'RE OK.'
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*Trigger warning: * suicide.

I Heard You Today.
Today, When You cried and said 'If only she'd called and told me how she was feeling I could have done something! I always have time for anyone struggling! '
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I shall wait, if that's what I must do.
Like summers grass waiting for morning dew.
Like the stilettoed foot needing a comfortable shoe.
Like a farmer yearning for his dinnertime stew.
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I love you like everything. Like everything that ever existed, exists and will ever exist.
There are no words, not in any language that describes the deep love I feel for you.
I love you is all.
I love you.
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