Grief’s not like a cancer, doesn’t go when the operation’s done and the darkness is out. It’s a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it’s always with you the rest of your life.

Grief’s not like a cancer, doesn’t go when the operation’s done and the darkness is out. It’s a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it’s always with you the rest of your life.

– Barney Norris –

Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

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