Grief

Grief is always messy

It isn’t just sadness

But love undone, left to fester

Deep inside, grief is learning about loneliness

All god damn over again

Grief is the anger that we cannot undo death

No matter how hard we try

We cannot control it

Grief is facing our own inevitability

Finite is our time to love or grieve

That’s why we hate it so

Elizabeth Almeida ©2022