Loneliness & Grief

When you are always the one who reaches out, and the phone stays quiet.

You held it together all day. Home is the first place it feels safe to let go.

A quiet wish that someone would see you without you having to ask.

When it starts to feel like you slipped out of other people's minds.

The check-ins stopped, and the silence got loud.

You are the one who checks. Rarely the one who is checked on.

A simple question you keep hoping someone will ask.

You may have people. Just not the right person for this.

You picked up the phone and put it back down.

Loneliness can show up in a crowded room.

The feeling of standing in a room and still being outside of it.

Watching plans happen around you, not with you.

Good news lands softly when there is no one to tell.

Something good happened, and you looked up with no one to share it.

A heavy thought. You matter, and you do not have to carry this alone.

Grief does not end the conversation. Many people still talk to the mom they miss.

The missing does not keep a calendar. Some days it is simply there.

For the days when missing your dad is the whole weather.

Your hand still goes to the phone before your mind catches up.

A sound you would give anything to hear one more time.

When the world moved on and nothing in you did.

The house is the same. Everything else is not.

Learning a life you never wanted to learn.