Grief lingers

Grief,

You can forget it,

and it stays.

You can deny it,

and it stays.

You can accept it,

and it stays.

You can pretend,

and it stays,

You can bargain with it,

and it stays.

It's like a terminal cancer that keeps eating at you until the day you die.  Then, it's meaningless, because you're with the one you lost.