When you meet someone in deep grief

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Not mine. Author's name is Patricia Mckernon Runkle. A friend showed me this poem and I felt the want to share it here. I really like it.

When you meet someone in deep grief

“Slip off your shoes
and set them by the door

Enter barefoot,
this darkened chapel

hollowed by loss,
hallowed by sorrow.

its grey stone walls
and floor

You, congregation
of one

Are here to listen,
not to sing.

Kneel in the back pew,
make no sound

Let the candles
speak.”




– Patricia Mckernon Runkle
 

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Not mine. Author's name is Patricia Mckernon Runkle. A friend showed me this poem and I felt the want to share it here. I really like it.

When you meet someone in deep grief

“Slip off your shoes
and set them by the door

Enter barefoot,
this darkened chapel

hollowed by loss,
hallowed by sorrow.

its grey stone walls
and floor

You, congregation
of one

Are here to listen,
not to sing.

Kneel in the back pew,
make no sound

Let the candles
speak.”



– Patricia Mckernon Runkle
Really great poem
 
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