Forever Changed

You will be forever changed
Not by the loss
Although it etches itself on your
heart
But by the gain
Knowing that you loved, really loved
and lost
It makes you more than
you were before
More understanding
More empathetic
More appreciative
More

Worth the love
the work, the loss
But she was
Oh she was

Love is always worth the loss
Rejoice!
For you have loved
and you are
Forever changed

When I lost my sister at only 22
I asked my mother
how she stood the loss
"I try to look at it this way"
she said
"When she was born, when they
put her in my arms, if they had told me
I could only have her for
22 years
I would have taken her anyway.
Anything less is saying
she wasn't worth it."