Invisible Suffering

I think the most painful funerals

are the invisible ones.

The kind where a person is still

physically alive but something inside

them has already been buried.

I know this because there were

years I walked around feeling

emotionally trapped inside a coffin

nobody could see.

And the strangest part was-

nobody came.

No flowers. No grieving voices.

Because invisible suffering

does not gather crowds.

People only mourn

what they can physically witness.

View starlover2103's Full Portfolio