Poems About Loss

Grief, loss, and the resulting confusion is like drowning in a vortex of swirling gray sea. These poems about loss reflect the tumultuous and unrelenting force that seems to be both a physical manifestation of grief and a reflection of the emptiness it leaves. It pulls you into its depths. Forever drowning, it feels like there is no rescue from it.

The shock of losing someone close to you is like being stung by a jellyfish, a sharp and unexpected pain that leaves us gasping for air. Except this sting is continuous, a never-ending reminder of the loss experienced. There is no escaping it, no reprieve.

A poem about loss is a way of trying to cope, of making sense of the chaos within, trying to make sense of a loss that for many of us is never truly understood.