Nova Scotia strong

 
There’s a slowness in my body,
heaviness in my heart.
The world goes on around me
as I’m sitting here, apart.

It’s not exactly sadness,
though tears do often come;
just lacking motivation,
feeling unfocused and numb.

Tomorrow we’ll remember
tragedy so hard to bear;
I didn’t really know those lost,
but grief hangs in the air.

We’ve held each other through so much -
there’s nothing we can’t weather.
What makes us “Nova Scotia strong”
is tears and songs – together.