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On Grief & Growth

  • Writer: Nic
    Nic
  • Apr 4, 2022
  • 1 min read

(incomplete, purpose served)


She saw it before I did:

stillness disguised as grief,

how I held my tears,

how freely they fell,

as evidence of motion.

But mourning demands more than

movement, insisting we move on,

transformative, in truth.

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