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These are the things I grieve
5 Jan 2024 04:57 pmMy mother, who is still alive, but lost sight some 35 years ago of the values she raised me to hold. I am who I am because of things from my early years but my parents cannot fathom how I turned out like I did.
The grievous state of the world - none of these polycrises we're enduring have to be happening. We can't eliminate them all but we could ease every one of them and yet we are doing so incomprehensibly little.
My lost potential, what i might have been if I'd been healthy.
My inability to do anything to help with any of the polycrises we're enduring.
The emptiness of my days.
My miscarriages.
Not any one failed relationship but my failure to have a relationship which endured.
How much illness has taken from me.
That I've lost so many people far too early but only a few to death.
That there will be no one to grieve for me. The neighbours will say some platitudes. Maybe one or two will see me buried. Maybe.
The grievous state of the world - none of these polycrises we're enduring have to be happening. We can't eliminate them all but we could ease every one of them and yet we are doing so incomprehensibly little.
My lost potential, what i might have been if I'd been healthy.
My inability to do anything to help with any of the polycrises we're enduring.
The emptiness of my days.
My miscarriages.
Not any one failed relationship but my failure to have a relationship which endured.
How much illness has taken from me.
That I've lost so many people far too early but only a few to death.
That there will be no one to grieve for me. The neighbours will say some platitudes. Maybe one or two will see me buried. Maybe.
