give sorrow words

“Give sorrow words.”  William Shakespeare,

Every once in a while someone puts words together in such a way that they seem to change the molecular composition of our hearts:

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”  C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

When evoking something as subjective as grief, give it tangible properties so your reader feels, more than thinks it.

Writing prompt: convey a way to know grief, by showing what it feels like, without ‘telling’