Acknowledgment

One of the hardest things to do

is to watch people grieve

and release a pain

that will live with you forever…

Yet the posts won’t stop

The acknowledgments and forgiveness linger

In the midst of a social society

that is supposed to make you smile

So you unfollow

the memories that are burned into your brain

Unfollow the repetition of praying for you

Unfollow the pains that you can’t control

But grief does not live in timelines

it does not refresh or disappear

with the quiet swipe of a thumb

It waits—

in the silence after the screen goes dark

in the way your body remembers

before your mind can catch up

There are no filters

for the weight of a name

no captions that can hold

what was never meant to be shared

And still—

love remains, stubborn and unpolished

finding you in ordinary moments

asking nothing but to be felt

So you learn, slowly,

to sit beside what aches

without posting it,

without explaining it

To carry them

not as a story told in fragments

but as a quiet presence

that moves with you

Beyond the noise

beyond the witnessing of strangers

there is a softer place

where grief is not performed

but held—

with care,

with breath,

with love