When You Lose Someone

When you lose someone,

It's like a light turning off

When darkness floods the room

When the sun's behind the clouds,

Never to come out again

When you lose someone,

It's like summer dying into winter

When all the green fades into gray

When the sky is overcast,

And sorrow is snow that covers all.

But when the clouds have hidden the sun

And snow has covered everything

In your grief you have forgotten

That clouds don't stay forever

Snow will melt and, like a river

Wash away the dull gray sadness

And the sun, with smiling face

Has come, once more into the sky.

Tears at night, in dark, may come,

But morning sun will dry them off.

And though someone you love is gone

You've gained the faith to live again.

~Ruth N.

Grandma Armie, 1930 - 2012