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The Death of a Wife: Reflections for a Grieving Husband

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This book trys to convey what grief is like through metaphors. I'm sorry my wife dieing is not the same as Bob's mother throwing away his old clothes and getting him new ones. Nor is it like drops of water being afraid to go over a water falls. Mr. Vogt turns to religion . I've read most of the book and his wife is not mentioned in it. He calls her"something".

After I lost my wife, this book was one of the more helpful ones for me in dealing with my grief. Most books try to tell you how you should feel, or how you should feel ok about feeling. Whatever. This author never claims to have any clue about how the reader might be feeling. He just pours his own emotions onto the page - in poems, metaphors, however he can manage to express himself at the moment. For me, this was much more useful that the more directed help books. My emotions were often different than Robert's, but reading about his struggle made me feel less alone in my own.

Grief

by Jerry Fagnani

I write for those

Who dwell in sacred hush,

Kneeling on altars

Of their own exile;

Those who weep

For the wildness in a gentle heart,

And sing a song of longing

For sun dappled paths of light.

I sing for those

Flying further than any dream can reach,

Knowing that the rivers remember

As do the desecrated shadows in the dark;

Forlorn brothers, who,

With wings of ancient wrath,

Ride the raging storms of night

With a love that can't forget.

I walk with those

Who embrace their ravages,

And listen to the wind

For a message from the seasons;

Souls on a withered landscape

And its long, long season of silence;

Except for their hearts

Which gently moan.

A Kinder Bright: Poems of Praise and Remembrance