Resources for Loss

"The Weighing" by Jane Hirshfield, contributed by Magd Lhroob (2022)

Nature is not unmerciful to her children. And nothing is unendurable. Jane Hirshfield’s poem carried me through deep personal loss during the COVID pandemic. This poem’s final lines “The world asks of us / only the strength we have and we give it. / Then it asks more, and we give it” moved me forward, even when I thought I was unmovable.

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