Poem: 'Echoes in the Walls'

Reconciling with grief over the festive period. Written by Victoria Chin

The whisper of the soul as it strains and dissipates
away from the heart that breaks
the resonance of a memory that's plucked, the note is held
the thrum and echo holding desperately to the end
stretching, beyond possibility, defending
the love that perseveres, the grief that exists.
With images of his last moments, time stretched over Christmas into New Year's first weeks
the painful bittersweet memories persist.

Although, 
in calm imbued in these walls
are the whispers of the soul-that-was
At peace at last but staying here
even with these images and memories of strife
the resonance of life, echoes
too attached to leave, or too selfish to go alone
watching over, making his presence known

And so, it's best to reconcile
to the definition of peace we have in hand
the spirit and memory in this house; pain and love, 
bigger than one person and soul-filled in every corner
the after-him, unplanned.