<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561184" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Letter of Commiseration</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I’m writing to say.”<br>“I decided to write.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I found beginning the difficult thing. (Remember not to commentate.) <br>How do I say I cried when I heard the news? That my body heaved with crashing sobs? <br>Some things words cannot contain. The need I felt to tell you that I hurt too. And instead<br>I work a polished screed of clichés and craft.<br>You will scan my words, wondering why I wrote at all. Why break my silence to say so little? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I picture myself stood apart from the mourners, wanting to be a witness to grief.<br>But I walk alone in Marble Hill Park and the flowers are funereal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Best wishes.”<br>“In my thoughts and prayers.”<br>“Condolences” (I ask you) <br>And the time it took to produce two sides of spidery writing.<br>I almost did not send it. I hoped the thought would count. Count for once.<br>It ought to have been an elegy, a song of praise.<br>But it was only an advertisement for my emotions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Hope you write soon.”<br>“Call me if you want to talk.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patrick+Rylands">Patrick Rylands</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561184" data-title="Letter of Commiseration de Patrick Rylands" data-description="“I’m writing to say.” “I decided to write.” I found beginning the difficult thing. (Remember not to commentate.) How do I say I cried when I heard the news? That my body heaved with crashing sobs? Some things words cannot contain. The..."></div> </div> </div>

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