The Pathological Grief.........

The Pathological Grief

Have you ever felt that,
Felt that ultimate pain.
That never ending grief,
Which is not brief.
As if you were insane.

First you deny,
then you are in rage,
Then you bargain,
For a painless pain
Then you get depressed
And finally you accept
And you feel the relief
After the pain so brief

A sequence brother

A sequence to complete
From pain so grief,
to the permanent relief
To return to sanity again
Though memories do remain
Forever and forever

And there are these exceptions,
Where you miss the steps
Jump from one to the other
Be in many at the same time
But you get that permanent relief
And memories do remain
Forever and forever

The other of a different kind,
Where you get stuck .
In one of those steps .
As if it went away,
As if it were a relief.
The sequence, never complete.
It would be back again,
against your own belief.
Relapsing over and over.
Deep inside your head,
That permanent pain.
Which makes you insane

That's when you say,
You are not in relief
Against your own belief.
That it should be brief.
That's when you say,
You are in,
The Pathological Grief

Suresh Jyotiopunja