No words can comfort: all we can do is share your north-face route with you. No-one can take your pain away or cut bereavement's journey short. Perhaps you would not want them to - your grief is all that's left to you of one, so loved who could not stay. All we can do is walk with you, and try to match our step to yours. Friends do not need acknowledgement: don't waste your strength to make response; just keep on walking day by day But let us share that cold road too to walk a little way with you. by Mary Sheepshanks