How do you deal with loss?

How do you deal with loss?

Do you let it simmer like stock in an old pot till it subtly colors you red and blue; till the flavor catches on, making you sour and bitter? Or do you let it stick like gum so everyone keeps their distance till someone sticks another one? Or, worse still, dares to scrape it off.

Do you drown yourself in cheap wine and tangled sheets, hoping you'll lose the person who lost? Or do you wander like a ghost without a grave, desperately trying to find a new home?

Do you sit with it till your knees are too weak to stand? Or do you throw it on a pile of other losses till the heap becomes higher than the walls you've built? Till it slowly creeps in and takes over you?

Do you pour it into everything you touch, everyone you meet? Till the veil of misery covers you? Till you find a new loss to live for? Do you run with it or run away from it?

How do you deal with loss? Do you make a list of ways to deal with it so you won't have to deal with it...?