Our blended household combines memories of lost spouses
Picking and choosing what to retain of our former lives
Your strengths shore me up where I am weak, and
My children’s pictures don’t remind you of yours
Together we strive to appear whole again
Though we know we are irretrievably broken.
Robert Carlberg is a retired technical writer.
At times, it takes losing to realize what we had been taking for granted.
Robert, this has a lovely eloquence on a difficult topic. Hope to read more of your stories!
Thanks. This one isn’t based on my life, but it emerged late one night and wouldn’t go away so I had to submit it.
Very touching. Thank you.
A beautifully implied sense that hope may co-exist with the emotional fragility of life-changing loss.