“Grief” - original oil painting from the 10-piece Human Nature series. Original collection by Adrianne Tamar Arachne.
24”x36” wood panel.
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”Grief”
by Adrianne Tamar Arachne

When I lost you 

Something broke.

Something I didn’t know 

Was keeping me

From everything that wasn’t as important 

As the love.

And that thing that broke 

Was a dam 

That then let in

An entire ocean of water 

That consumed me whole.

I was connected to nothing and to everything at once.

I was dissolved.

And.. against all odds..

I was made holy.

By the grief.

An emotion

That will dissolve 

Everything

That isn’t 

Real. 

I’m not afraid, anymore. 

My heart was made for this.

An ocean beating life eternal 

Through the horror and the beauty

Of what it is to be alive. 

Love the loves you have lost.

Feel the empty shape of their absence.
Fill it in with the water you are made from.

Know that the moment you have, here and now, to love 

Is all you may have

In this eternal loss

Of everything.

So praise it.

Praise it with your grief.

Let life know you cared. You loved.

And that above all, you were human.

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Poem and Painting shipped together.