A Saddening Burden
People say there are numerous steps of grief including: shock, denial, anger, guilt, and acceptance. Grief may be those things, but it is much more.
Grief is learning there was an accident at camp. Grief is getting an alarming phone call about someone you love. It is going to a funeral to remember someone important. Grief is walking in the door to see your crying family. Grief is not being able to sleep from fear of dying yourself. Grief is wondering why even though your world stops, the sun still rises and sets.
Grief throws your heart to the ground and smashes it. After a while, grief becomes your silent dancing partner, waltzing across an empty floor. It drives you insane with its poisonous whispers of misery. It pulls your broken consciousness back together as its own creation. It drags your body through the haunting days as a zombie. The pain engulfs your mind as a warm blanket to escape into. Grief is not being afraid to cry every once in a while. Grief is being angry because life isn’t fair. It’s forcing you to smile as though nothing happened. Grief is asking yourself what you did to deserve this. Grief is finding what you’ve been given after what has been taken away. Grief is not knowing what could have happened if they had been here. Grief is wondering if you will ever wake from this nightmare.
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