A poetry book related to one woman's journey through grief.

The book is divided into segments, showing a transition in the author's emotions with the passage of time. It begins with a collection of poems written before the death of her husband. The subsequent sections reflect the feelings which surfaced in the days, weeks and months which passed during the first year after the unexpected event. She moves through the horror and shock of the initial engulfment in grief to a greater acceptance of his passage. With an appreciation of the words of St. Francis of Assisi: " It is in dying we are born into eternal life", the experience can be seen through a more eternal perspective.

Barbara Martinez is currently retired and lives in Las Vegas, NM, where she paints and writes. This book emerged from the grief she experienced after loosing her husband in 2014 from a sudden heart attack. She has decided to share her experience with others in the hope of offering some slight consolation to those in similar circumstances. It was written in the first year after her husband died and is dedicated to his memory.