Grieving is a kind of becoming
to ask oneself: what kind of person am I becoming
with every phase in life. The nature itself is transformational.
Silent, I sat under the stars,
my life surging until time itself lay
buried in immeasurable shadows of light.
No world more real than this, for I was everywhere & nowhere.
& still words & tears & feelings emerging,
This is death, I am not dying: Where else can I be—go?
Andrea Rehani-Estes is a Poet and Writer. She is a certified Teaching Artist, a Co-Captain of Poems While You Wait, and educator. As a poet of Poems While You Wait, Andrea’s typewritten poetry can be found on https://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/. Her writing has been published in Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, MAKE: A Literary Magazine, Orion Magazine, and elsewhere.