Table of Contents
Author's note vii
How to talk to the grieving 3
Where you left me 5
Let me go 6
A dream 9
Wider than the world 11
The lost half 13
Inside out 15
It's your birthday today 17
Rainbow bridge 19
Sorry for your loss 21
The ghosts 23
The loss of a mother 24
The loss of a father 26
Great grief 29
The box 31
Once a day 33
Some days are for the grief 35
I let go of your hand 37
Sometimes 39
Take the love 41
Against the grain 43
Death is a thief 45
Holiday grief 46
Sweet child 49
When I go 51
The last time 52
Milestones never met 55
Christmas day 56
Love me still 59
Mother's Day without her 60
Without a child 63
Again 65
The living 67
If I ever have to leave 68
If a star fell 71
Before and after 73
Last night 75
Giant 77
The orphan 79
Maybe 82
I needed you today 84
For the parents 86
Bear with me 89
On those days 93
For those lost to war 95
A mourning mother 97
Tragedy 99
You may be gone 101
Less 103
It's in the knowing 105
If you must 107
Your footprints 109
When you rest 110
Feathers 113
Roots 115
The life you didn't live 117
Grandmother 119
Sunshine barred 121
Peace at last 122
Father's Day without him 125
The mist 126
There will always be loss 129
That moment 133
A little bird 135
After a while 137
Was once love 139
Take them with you 141
Acknowledgements 143
