Grandmother

this particular poem reminds me of my grandmother that passed just recently it brought tears to my eyes, it touched me so deeply.

this poem touched me I read it for my grandmother her funeral was on my birthday and it was sad I feel that recovering from her death will take me time

When I found out my grandmother passed away memorial day weekend, this poem described exactly how I felt when I found out she passed away. Thank you for giving me a poem that will give me a little closure.

When will I stop hurting so bad I'm 11 years old and my grandma died 8 months ago but still I cry myself to sleep every night since my grandma died. My mom and dad told me to talk to my auntie and I broke down a little but I still hurt so much and my sisters and brothers seem ok and could talk about her and go to her grave without crying or being sad but I still feel like she died yesterday and everyday I think to myself when will the pain go away? When will the sadness go away? When will the day come that I don't cry myself to sleep? When will I just be ok.?

Rosalinda: my grandma died 12 years ago. I was 13. Today she would have been 90. The pain never goes away, but I take comfort in the memories I have with her. Some of my cousins were too small to remember her so I'm grateful for the pictures and memories. Stay strong girl. Look for a song by dmx. Its called "I miss you" its a song he wrote for his grandma.

Rosalinda,
I lost my mom 13 years ago, and in 2012 I lost my grandmother, aunt and uncle, and my uncle lost his mother as well. I think that the most important thing is to talk about your feelings with whoever you feel comfortable talking to. It was a huge help for me. I was 21 when my mother passed away suddenly, and my little sister was just 18 years old. It was very hard and still is hard for me. I wrote everything I felt in notebooks and journals because I wasn't able to express what I felt to my family. But I realized just how important it is to express your feelings. The sadness of loosing someone that you love and that bond that you had with them will never go away, but the hurt that feels like a knife, it starts to feel a little less stinging after a while. When I think of my grandmother and my mother I think of them talking with one another and laughing about the dumb stuff that I did at one time or another. Or my grandmother telling my mother about how I went back to school and got my Master's degree. Or telling my mom that she has two beautiful grandsons that are a splitting image of her, and my mother yelling at my grandmother saying that she knows because she watches over all of us all the time.
I think of them all and smile, because the memories they make me happy now, not sad. You will get there, it will just take time.
Robyn