have you seen Ricky Gervais's show After Life? It's brilliantly spiritual even though told from an atheist perspective. https://medium.com/p/2f65ac86dfcf I thought of him and Anne sitting on the bench in the cemetery as they often do in the show. Anyway, while I had read your poem 12 hours ago because I have editor privileges here but I don't get involved (I'm not supposed to), when I saw your name hit my notices I had to read, and I texted Claire, "Carolyn Hasting's poem on grief is so good," and she replied, "I also enjoyed Carolyn's piece. Very powerful ."

Here's what I often say about grief: the pain pockets of grief have infinite depth, these chasms can cause tears at a moment's notice no matter how much time has elapsed, yet as the pockets drain, their infinite depth leaves room for infinite amounts of Light to enter our lives.

My pain pockets tore open a couple of days ago and i wrote this: https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/how-i-helped-my-heaven-mate-crossover-to-the-other-side-e4d91b448e0b