Grief (n): a keenmentalsufferingordistressoverafflictionorloss;sharpsorrow;painfulregret.
With the holiday season coming up, the memory of those close to us whom we have lost is looming and painful. They should be here, laughing, and loving with holiday cheer, but instead we stare at their place at the table and feel our hearts break.
Dear Empty Seat at the Table,
You used to be filled with a person so full of life. They spilled drinks on you and got crumbs all over you. From your emptiness, there used to be laughter.
Where you are now hard and cold, it used to be filled with warm vivacious cheer. I loved the person that used to fill you, and now they are gone.
Your emptiness haunts me, and prods at my grief with its openness. I miss the person that sat where you are. I cry and ask God why he only takes the best, to spend the holidays with the angels now.
Though it is sad, the holidays are about love,and though something is missing, I still can't help but be thankful and feel merry. You see empty seat, even though you loom over me with your sadness, the person who used to fill you would not want that. They would want me and everyone here to be happy and love one another.
Someone I cherished is gone, and you remain, yet they are still with me, giving me reason to be thankful and merry, November through December, and all year round.
Sincerely,
Grieving and loved