How Does Grief Begin?
Sina Chau-Pech
How does grief begin
How do you bury it
How does it become
Your lifetime companion?
Does it come as fog
Does it fall like rain
How can you not be seduced
Ask her to stay?
How does grief become your household guest
When did she enter your dream?
Did she come knock on your door
Did she bring you books and peaches
Did she ask if she could mop your kitchen floor
And lay next to you in your broad size bed?
How did grief show you the way
Did she say, “Son, now just listen to me
I know all clouds have silver linings
All islands have some hidden treasures”?
How does grief take down her mask
One morning before Winter solstice
Did she show you her sorrow and her losses
After the big autumn fire?
How does grief quietly go away
Did you befriend her
Did you let her know she will always be welcome
That you will never close your door on her?
How does grief show you the way
When death really is but one breath away?
How do you bury it
How does it become
Your lifetime companion?
Does it come as fog
Does it fall like rain
How can you not be seduced
Ask her to stay?
How does grief become your household guest
When did she enter your dream?
Did she come knock on your door
Did she bring you books and peaches
Did she ask if she could mop your kitchen floor
And lay next to you in your broad size bed?
How did grief show you the way
Did she say, “Son, now just listen to me
I know all clouds have silver linings
All islands have some hidden treasures”?
How does grief take down her mask
One morning before Winter solstice
Did she show you her sorrow and her losses
After the big autumn fire?
How does grief quietly go away
Did you befriend her
Did you let her know she will always be welcome
That you will never close your door on her?
How does grief show you the way
When death really is but one breath away?
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Sina Chau-Pech was born in Phnom-Penh, Cambodia. He immigrated to France at the age of 11. At 23, he moved again, this time to reunite with his family in California. He now lives in Sacramento with his wife, two college-aged sons, and a labradoodle named Pippen.
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