“Give sorrow words.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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’