Quiet Grief

This piece is for moments when grief feels private.
Nothing needs to be said while listening.
You can let it remain quiet.
Ans is using somatic voicing what carries signal not noise for the nervous system regulation.

Transcript

Grief most times doesn't announce itself.

It moves softly.

It moves quietly.

It shows up in small pauses,

In unexpected tears,

In the way certain names still echo,

In the way certain moves still echo,

In the way certain smells still echo.

You may not speak about it.

You may carry it like something precious and fragile that cannot be explained.

Quiet grief is grief.

It doesn't need witnesses to be real.

It doesn't need display to be real.

If you feel something missing in ordinary moments,

That absence makes sense.

Loss leaves shape behind.

Grief moves toward privacy to shelter what is sacred to you.

Let your grief be quiet,

Private,

And sacred.