Grief

Embellished,
Raw, Hidden,
Brutal and wishful,
Crawling its ways through opposites
self pity or 'righteous' anger
Cushioned in new age healing!

It can't move to rich sorrow
for it's too violent,
It can't move forward or backward
neither to a sappy level of a whine
nor the agony of physical pain
or just simple tears.

Ah but it is fine
because some beading work 
would embellish it
make it pretty
a few threads of embroidery
and it may herald the entry of a new artist

Grief, 
loud, thundering, insistent
politely woven in 
gauze like lace
the wound, a brilliant red,
raw, refined art work

for the initiated,
the uninitiated devotees
singing the praises of surface emotion.
Grief plunging into itself
like the kitchen knife
slicing unsuspecting cabbage.

Garnished, embellished, raw,
provocative,
sexy, elegant,
graceful, hidden
crawling, plunging, 
Silent!