I read this poem by Jan Richardson on Verse after the mass shooting in Highland Park. It was so beautiful that I wanted to share it with all of you.

Blessing for the Brokenhearted

by Jan Richardson

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
– Henry David Thoreau

Let us agree
for now
that we will not say
the breaking
makes us stronger
or that it is better
to have this pain
than to have done
without this love.

Let us promise
we will not
tell ourselves
time will heal
the wound,
when every day
our waking
opens it anew.

Perhaps for now
it can be enough
to simply marvel
at the mystery
of how a heart
so broken
can go on beating,
as if it were made
for precisely this—

as if it knows
the only cure for love
is more of it,

as if it sees
the heart’s sole remedy
for breaking
is to love still,

as if it trusts
that its own
persistent pulse
is the rhythm
of a blessing
we cannot
begin to fathom
but will save us
nonetheless.

When we are in pain, we can find beauty and solace in art such as this poem by Jan Richardson. #grief #sadness #poetry #healing Click To Tweet

Love,

Lisa Kaplin Psy. D. CPC

Lisa Kaplin Psy. D. PCC

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