Read “A Father’s Lament” by David Ritter — a heartfelt grief poem about love, loss, and remembrance.
Read “A Father’s Lament” by David Ritter — a heartfelt grief poem about love, loss, and remembrance.
A deeply moving poem of remembrance, “You Used To” captures the heartbreak of losing a child through alternating voices of mother and father. With tender recollection and aching simplicity, David Ritter reveals how memories of love endure even after life’s greatest loss.