Grief and Death walk hand in hand. 

Long lost soulmates reunite.

Yes,I  understand the blackness of sorrow will never just be a wisp tomorrow gone

Tears take time to dry, as do painful sobs subside

but is  outpouring grief the only way respect must lie? 

Or has it devolved into a mere social media trend?

True respect doesn't need its name in lights

nether does it expect to be in anyone's direct line of sight 

respect shown is a CHOICE 

and this, just happens to be mine...

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It's said that talk is cheap but who is to say it cannot be expensive?

Expensive?

No...

How about  Priceless, Dangerous, Useless, Hilarious?

Sticks and stones may break one's bones but words can slowly kill one's spirit...

Be gentle with your words, towards others, towards yourself...

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There are those who are in the mindset of "Don't complain or the Universe hears you..." 

Excuse me, but what makes one think the Universe doesn't hear, what is chosen to be unspoken?

Is complaining really such an irritant or part of a country's voice never given much precedence...

Silence is golden, as they say...

But what happens when silence becomes an infesting, maddening burden?

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Every story has a hero...but none starts  without being a zero...

What lies beneath the face of a villian?

Wouldn't completely vanquishing evil signal the end of the hero's journey?

What then, I ask you?

What then...?

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A monkey by any other name is just a monkey yes?

Excuse me...but I beg to differ...

A mandrill is definitely NOT a baboon!

So perhaps it's not a case of monkey see monkey do but looking in depth at the 'key' that is a monkey named Rafiki...

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Dictionaries define Grief as a feeling... In the world of Psychology, it is seen as a process...

What if Grief attacks you like a thief in the night? Overwhelmed  by this unexpected earthquake of your life? Unprepared, unplanned... Void of truly feeling? Brain muddled beyond what it dares to comprehend?

What can you do then, where instructions there are none?

Every second, minute, hour and day.

No matter what, ride the storm! 

Watch it, as it watches you transform...

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Mirror Mirror on the wall, what if I think I'm the ugliest of them all? Is what I see through You an utter lie?

Or... perhaps the folly is mine?

For if beauty is in the eye of the beholder,  then why can't I see for myself?

Maybe, just maybe... Sight is not a sense as Science says it is, but a journey of evolving perception...

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Life's challenges, we can never really run from can we? What if Life's challenges are merely a combination of Fate's roller-coaster rides?

Which ones do we choose to scream through, which ones do we choose to see as perpetual joyrides?

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A poet is never born, more like a distraction from BORING homework... Unpolished and untrained , perhaps a prolific poetic accident?

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Shades of Steph (SOS) is a 51 episode podcast where Stephanie Esther Fam, author of the poetry collection SHADES, takes listeners into a deep delve of the thoughts, stories and inspirations that are cornerstones of her writing and Life as a whole. So come... Step into the Shades of Steph and perhaps...you might find shadows of yourself too...

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