Eventually you'll learn to inhale and exhale without pain.

Eventually your lungs will learn to expand and contract with ease around the cavernous void that once housed your heart.
Your body will adjust to the realignment of your chest cavity.

You won't even notice the ache after enough time.

These things don't go away.
Closure is an illusion.

We just learn to smile with the same mouth that once howled anguished cries. Learn to say the words that we didn't think the lump in our throat would let us.

We walk a little taller with the cross on our backs each time we just let ourselves

breathe.