Poems of Parting and Grief

We all have to bear the pain, at some stage or another, of losing family or friends that we love or cherish. Let no-one tell you that the pain will die with time: it doesn't. What's more, we need the grief to hold on to the ones we lose, so don't fight it: bear it. Crying is allowed: even for roughy toughy sailors like me. You will probably feel my tears when you are reading some of these poems. I hope my poetry does not distress you, but rather helps to sustain you when that throat-drying ...