Please share your favorite sad poems about grief and loss

[missy]

The snow changed to rain
what a hollow sound
But it seems to match
my tears falling down

A new year's dawning
I'm stuck in the past
How long is this heartbreak
expected to last?

I've been here before
I should know the score
Time keeps on moving
my pain, it ignores

When the new year falls
who am I to kiss?
It's one more thing Santa
forgot from my list

Once the big ball drops
and then it's 12:01
Here I'll be again
my options still none

An unbroken string
Another sad new year
Count it in the books
Stained with all my tears....

 

[caf]

I’m sorry Missy.

 

[caf]

'Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone'​ Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good. W H Auden

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