Mourning An Idea

The dying of the mind

Michele Merritt
Resistance Poetry
Published in
1 min readAug 16, 2020

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Photo by Reza Hasannia on Unsplash

Mourning the physical death of a person

Stabs you in the heart;

Your whole body aches in their absence,

Though you knew the day would come,

Like it will come for you,

You scream “fuck you!” to the universe,

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Michele Merritt
Resistance Poetry

Philosophy professor. Adoptee. Advocate. Activist. Marathon swimmer. Cheese consumer. I write about dogs a lot. michelemerritt.com