Nowhere to go - Sheldon® Comic Strip

This single panel comic shows GRAMP, an older bald man with a grey mustache, holds SHELDON’s hand - a ten-year-old with large glasses. They walk away from the viewer into a beautiful sunset sky. In lighter line and faded color, and older woman hold GRAMP’s hand, looking over at both of them with a sweet smile. Holding SHELDON’s hand in lighter line and faded color is a young man in glasses, looking at SHELDON, mouth open as if he’s excitedly encouraging his son.

HEADLINE: Grief is just Love that has Nowhere to go

POEM:
Grif is just love that has nowhere to go.
Where the love is still present…but with none to to bestow.

See, our short lives are troubled, and days can be hard,
but there’s hands who will guide you, and love you, and guard.
And your road is made softer, by their presence, there.
And all loads made lighter, in moments of care.
But when we must part — and we have, do and will —
the love doesn’t cease, it continues on, still.

And when love turns to grief, as the focal point’s gone,
what once was a chorus, a solo-sung song.
But int ime, all that love finds a new hand to hold.
And pays forward the kindness that made it grow bold.

So, while grief is just love that has nowhere to go…
it’s the nature of love to find NEW ways to grow.

TEXT AT BOTTOM: All praise and attribution to Jamie Anderson, whose insight on grief inspired this lil’ poem.

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