Saturday, December 7, 2013

Poems Of Comfort In Your Time Of Need

By Tiffany Gill


Seeking refuge in the palliating arms of someone you love is not easy to do. Many people seek privacy during periods of grief in order to express themselves privately in the safety and security of home. Often they feel that others do not understand the weightiness of their anguish. By turning to poems of comfort, they have the ability to express their grief, by reading the written words of others who have experienced similar loss.

Feeling the heart felt words, expressed by someone else who has experienced similar pain and suffering somehow seems to make things more bearable. They seem to be able to put into words, the depth of the agony that you have endured. It is almost as if they are taking pen to task with your emotion.

Encompassing your inability to grieve, they begin the process of inner healing. They usually begin with the cause of your distress, whether it is the loss of a job, self worth, the loss of a family pet or a loved one. Perhaps you are still in denial regarding your loss. By allowing yourself to focus on the object of your grief, you allow yourself to feel your loss. You can not truly heal and move on, if you do not allow yourself the ability to grieve.

By allowing yourself to feel your loss, they help you find strength to let go, to continue to live, to strive, to allow yourself to once again begin to live life. Many compositions will allow you to work through your anger and hurt. Once again, they bring out the anguish that is within your soul. Slowly and methodically, allowing you to work through your grief one step at a time.

Poetic bargaining is a way of begging for a different situation, rather than facing the one that stands before you. Based on hope, the author seeks a way to change the past to make today's grief vanish. When encompassed in these lyrics, it almost seems possible for the promises you've made, to change the events that have occurred.

The uniqueness of depressive poetry is that you are alone in your suffering. You may feel that you are alone and that you are clearly the only person who has ever felt devastation such as this. These compositions present the pain of the writer into words that substantiate your depression. Once you feel that you have been understood, you are able to see more clearly the way to work through the obstacles.

Finding acceptance through the written word will put you in a more receptive state. Finding assuagement in these compositions, you realize that even though you have endured tremendous difficulty, you will find a way to move forward with life. You may still experience additional feelings of loss, but you will also be encouraged by the realization that you have not walked this path alone, you now have a partner to share your grief.

By understanding the written words of others, who have walked the same broken-hearted path, you will begin to find healing. Allow yourself to bathe in the warmth of the word that was written to aid you in the healing process. Find consolation in the midst of loss through reading poems of comfort.




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