Holding Back a Tear

Holding Back A Tear By Joeysguy At the bereavement group that I attend It’s a place we don’t have to pretend We hear stories of emotion and pain Pretending here has nothing to gain People come here in a sad way Because of a life that had slipped away Some people sit here with tears in their eyes We all know that pain of when a love dies With the stories that we hear It’s hard to hold back a tear Everyone here has lost a love Taken from us to the heaven above It’s always hard to keep a dry eye Being here any of us may cry We heard of a rock giving strength in ones life For me it’s this group and the poems to my wife   The feeling of normal was asked of me That normal in my life will never again be People outside can act different as we know We may hold back our feelings so as not to show So this is the place we can be true To ourselves and to each of you