People often make grief and pain sound like a poetic storyline that you have to go through

Songs make crying and having a panic attack in the middle of the grocery store sound

_Normal_

Movies make breaking down in front of your family a way of bringing you all

_Closer together _

But let’s be honest

Crying in the grocery store can be the most heartbreaking feeling there is

You feel so out of control of your own emotions

To the point where strangers are seeing you

_Cry_

Breaking down in front of your family could be a way of

_Shattering_ your relationship with them forever

In those moments grief becomes real

Grief isn’t poetic

Grief isn’t a basic storyline of a superhero

Because grief can make you into a person you don’t even recognize anymore

It’s not always a happy ending

And In those moments where I have to hold back tears in a grocery store

Hold back tears in front of my own family

Grief became unavoidable

It became all I could see

All I could ever be

These little moments

These tiny pieces of my day

Become the most heartbreaking minutes of my life

Because it meant that

Grief was now my reality

It was all becoming real

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I have a genuine question for anyone who has read anything i’ve written. Would you truly consider it poetry?

I don’t follow any certain kind of poetry or structure when I write. I mostly just do whatever I want and what feels right. So would it still be considered poetry? Is that an accurate name to describe what I do? Let me know any of your thoughts. It would be greatly appreciated!! ❤️