{"id":379,"date":"2010-08-20T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/resolving-in-grief\/"},"modified":"2010-08-20T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T20:33:11","slug":"resolving-in-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/resolving-in-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolving In Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's been some time, but I felt now would be appropriate.  Losing, winning, missing all seem to have their place when a loved one passes.  In my case my dad almost two years removed.  <\/p>\n

I've made some heroic attempts at understanding my relationship with a man named Charles.  Not sure I'll ever fully get it, but Sting's song Ghost Story is an ironic portrait of my relationship with my dad.  Kismet.  I thought I would share here as I make my way through a long journey.<\/p>\n

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I watch the Western sky
The sun is sinking
The geese are flying South
It sets me thinking<\/p>\n

I did not miss you much
I did not suffer
What did not kill me
Just made me tougher<\/p>\n

I feel the winter come
His icy sinews
Now in the fire light
The case continues<\/p>\n

Another night in court
The same old trial
The same old questions asked
The same denial<\/p>\n

The shadows closely run
Like jury members
I look for answers in
The fire's embers<\/p>\n

Why was I missing then
That whole December
I give my usual line:
I don't remember<\/p>\n

Another winter comes
His icy fingers creep
Into these bones of mine
These memories never sleep<\/p>\n

And all these differences
A cloak I borrow
We kept our distances
Why should it follow I must have loved you<\/p>\n

What is the force that binds the stars
I wore this mask to hide my scars
What is the power that pulls the tide
I never could find a place to hide<\/p>\n

What moves the Earth around the sun
What could I do but run and run and run
Afraid to love, afraid to fail
A mast without a sail<\/p>\n

The moon's a fingernail and slowly sinking
Another day begins and now I'm thinking
That this indifference was my invention
When everything I did sought your attention<\/p>\n

You were my compass star
You were my measure
You were a pirate's map
A buried treasure<\/p>\n

If this was all correct
The last thing I'd expect
The prosecution rests
It's time that I confess: I must have loved you
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It's been some time, but I felt now would be appropriate.  Losing, winning, missing all seem to have their place when a loved one passes.  In my case my dad almost two years removed.   I've made some heroic attempts at understanding my relationship with a man named Charles.  Not sure I'll ever fully get it,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,54],"tags":[823,180,336,93,1370,119,1369],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-life-perspectives","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-leadership","tag-relationships-2","tag-self-growth","tag-self-help","tag-sting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}