On sadness, joy and closure

A year ago today my family suffered the tragic loss of my dear brother-in-law, Malcolm Jacky Brown. Perhaps because I ran out of words to explain my terrible sadness, I wrote three short poems. 

Sadness

Sadness is an emptiness

you cannot fill with fun

a pain that is birthed 

by a desperate idea 

of nothingness

Joy

Joy rolls in at high tide

crashing into white

erasing the writing on the sand

making a clean sweep of yesterday's rubble

from before

to once again

Closure

Clouds covering the sun

ending the play of a summer day

packing up the memories in a basket

vowing to return

knowing you really never will

Malcolm Jacky Brown

1965-2012