Grief Poem by Carolyn Brunelle

Adrift on a merciless sea
an unspeakable emptiness
cuts a deep hole in me
one that bleeds and aches.
How much more I can take
only God really knows.

Each day swallowed by another
I am floating debris in the belly of a beast
where there is no light
no direction
or apparent destination.

Wounded in ways no one can see
the love and joy in my life ripped from me,
I feel nothing, not even you God,
and all I hear is the awful silence
where a beating heart should be.