But sometimes.

Sometimes grief comes in waves.

It takes your breath away when you least expect it.

Forcing you back into that place you thought you had long ago escaped.

It creeps up on you and reminds you that you are human.

That you have lost and grieved and that pain still resides in you.

Much deeper than before when it merely rested on the surface.

Now it finds itself lodged at the bottom of your heart.

It emerges at times to remind you of what once could have been.

But the truth is it doesn’t hurt in the same way anymore.

Tears are still shed but the hope that sits behind it is enough to remind you that your future sits out on the horizon, awaiting you to come searching for it.