Grief is Yours Alone

It’s all right to cry these tears to feel this pain to miss the years

To sit alone and wish you weren’t, to smile and try to hide the hurt

But I say don’t hide it, let it all out. Scream. Wail. Kick and shout. 

Don’t hold back, don’t hold it in. Don’t hide your pain with a fake little grin. 

Grief is yours, individually,  no one can define it unless you let them

No matter the years that come and go   The days pass and seem normal at times

And normal it is, I guess that’s true  the new normal that eventually came to you 

But it’s OK to be sad or glad as you remember your loved one and all you had. 

A moment, a day, a week, or more. Then pick right back up living, like you did before. 

M. S.  

10/22/23