Love Poem: The story of everything
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Written by: Michelle Morris

The story of everything

Inspired by Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. We all move through loss and grief at our own pace and in our own way. 

It's a moving and funny movie, starring Renée Zellweger and a bunch of awesome actors. 

The story of everything 
By Michelle Morris 
13/02/2025

These inanimate things I touch
In memory of your existence 
I still keep them here in this box of bits
Holding on in order to go on

Here I sit again this year
Writing a letter for your birthday 
The children and I miss you daily
And this gives us a chance to celebrate your life 

There's this fear, you see, that they have 
The forgetting about you with time 
It's one of those things that happens 
Children, in particular, survive this way 

But there was this beautiful reminder 
That energy doesn't disappear 
It is transformed as are we
It goes on as do we

And there it is, exactly what the Universe intended 
The reminder of our divinity 
For no matter what happens when we die
We live on in another form

We live in hearts and minds
We remain tethered to souls with love
The thrumming of our collective threads
Continues to weave the most beautiful stories 

The story of us 
The story of our love
The story of our lives
The story of everything 

And these inanimate things I touch
Well, they can't change anything 
But the memories they hold will remain 
Unbroken, unfettered, undeterred 

Instead of moving on 
I will move through the pain
Instead of moving on
I will be present each day 

Learning to let go
Learning to live again 
Learning to love again 
Learning that loss isn't permanent 

I'll see you again one day 
Where everything exists as light
Where we are love and loved
Our eternal energy is one

© Michelle Morris, 2025