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.