Heartache

Heartache doesn’t come wrapped in a considerate package. It’s shocking and maddening and painful and always ill-timed. It knocks us down and leaves us dazed and damaged, searching for answers and a way to get back on our feet.

We have no say in how or when bad things happen. All we can do is find some awkward way past them. We pick up the pieces and take tentative steps through frequent storms of sadness and numbness and rage, all while carrying a heavy burden of grief for what we have lost.