Grief Became Her - Original

Grief Became Her

This particular piece was inspired from the elated feeling you get when you start to heal after loss. You become bonded to something that broke you to your core. From enduring grief it becomes your strength. You are not ashamed of it anymore; it becomes who you are. Grief is stronger than you that’s why you need to join forces with it. This poem elaborates on coming to this understanding.

Grief becomes her 

Thank you for the heart break

Thank you for the let downs 

Thanks for the altered dream 

For I don’t know who wrote the script 

It just leads me back to what really broke my heart in the first place 

I can’t escape how bad it feels 

As the grief becomes a part of who I am

What I’m made of 

What we will all go through 

In a world where things are becoming more fake and shiny

There is still so much beauty in pain 

There is even beauty in ugliness 

There is beauty in bitter truth 

There is even beauty in grief 

So become her 

Become to the ugly 

Become of the truth 

Become your pain 

Become your grief 

It’s your history 

It’s what made you 

Grief is a dance 

It’s just as important to be still 

As it is to move 

So dance 

Your sorrows won’t go away 

It just becomes a beautiful song

With so much feeling 

With so much real-ness 

Grief becomes you