Grieve

By Freya Anastasia Hatfield

Grieve is a funny thing

It can last a lifetime

It makes you believe that you are ok

It hides for a long time

Only to return one day unexpectedly

No reasons as to why, 

maybe other than to make you not forget that pain

It affects everyone differently

No one death affects us the same

You can go days, weeks, months even years

Without noticing it, without knowing that it is still there

Some can live with it, others can’t

That’s the effect of grieve.

Some cry day after day, shutting everyone they love out

Others find talking about it, letting everyone in helps

From young to old at some point, we will all experience 

Someone we love passing away.

It’s something we can’t hide from, nor should we want to

It can make us stronger, make us live every day we have to its fullest

It can make us grateful for what we have

Make us proud of the person we knew

Make us realise how special they were

The memories we make, the little captures of time we can save

Things that  they told us and no one else

The impact that we don’t realise that they make on our lives

Long after they have gone.

Grieve is often seen as being sad

A thing that brings sad thoughts

And for some reason brings us down

It doesn’t have to be that way

It can bring you happy thoughts

Of happy times spent with a loved one you miss

Grieve can bring you back to a time when you smiled and laughed

It doesn’t need to be a frown and tears

A laugh a smile a happy thought

These can also be grieve 

A remembering of your loved ones who are no longer here