Dear Grief,
I've let you stay for a long time. Please go. Please leave my room, my house, my work. I know you'll have to come back again some day, so can you please just leave for awhile until the next time? I need to be able to breathe. Or if you have to stay, can you turn it down, just for a few days? I've given you a lot of time and space, so can I just have a few days? I'm suffocating.
Thank you,
JT