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