An out loud healing journal post
People will leave you. People will disappoint you. Some will do so with a cold shoulder and some with a loving embrace. Then there are the others who find their departure earlier than your love had a chance to grow. They walk away, drive away, or are carried away— but the ones whose echoes never die are the ones your heart will hold for an eternity. They never leave.
They remain in your beating heart, clenching your soul, with the memories of when their echo was first released. At first their call may bring about a pain, an ache — all those things you wanted to say to them, do with them and the tears may flow, but if you listen closely you can hear that echo grow. Even if it may have started as a faint whisper, there it is coming to life within you. They never left, they remain, there, in that echo.
You will never be alone if you can sit and listen to the echoes. Soon the images will appear, like flipping through pages of an album — those still shots will come alive taking you back to when their departure you didn’t know and as they walk.. run ..towards you, reminding you of the joy you once shared… the laughter rolling through the air. And then, that warmth from their care will keep your heart beating. It will keep the cold bitter air away from building up within, and all because that echo, their love, their memory, never departed, never died.
Dedicated to anyone and everyone who feel a loss — listen for the echoes, and they shall remain.
