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Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief QUOTES

Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief QUOTES

1 " Sometimes grief is like a wave, and healing is like a butterfly. "

― Jocelyn Soriano , Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

2 " It is not because things die,
That they are beautiful.
Things are beautiful
Because somehow,
A part of them lives on
And never dies… "

― Jocelyn Soriano , Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

3 " I won't be bringing flowers,
They cannot reach you where you are.
Ashes would return into ashes,
But the ashes won't bring you home.
I won't be bringing flowers,
They'd wither away and die.
I'd bring instead some butterflies,
To help you reach the skies. "

― Jocelyn Soriano , Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

4 " How I wish to be stronger
So I could bleed without fainting,
And in bleeding
I may cry,
With all the love I have in me. "

― Jocelyn Soriano , Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

5 " Sometimes there is a sadness,
That even tears cannot speak.
My heart alone knows the pain,
A pain so sharp and deep.

Why then do I hold on?
Why do I follow where it leads?
Ah, perhaps because it draws me closer,
It carries me where it is sweet. "

― Jocelyn Soriano , Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

6 " I thought the stars wouldn't shine,
When you are gone,
I thought that all the light,
Would vanish from the sun.
Let them stay forever then,
Let their presence comfort me,
Perhaps somewhere my love is still there,
In some secret place where beautiful things run free. "

― Jocelyn Soriano , Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief