Coffee & Grief

Most people tend to avoid processing their grief
for the same reason they avoid drinking their coffee black
They know that it's bitter
They dislike the bitterness
And so in an attempt to distract themselves
They load it up with all types of sugar and cream
Even though they know three out of four of us are lactose intolerant
What most of y'all don't know, coffee's not a bean
Coffee is a fruit
It's the pit of a cherry
This fruit takes on the flavor of its soil

The thing is though:
It only lets the people that lean into the bitterness
Enjoy the sweetness that's on the back end.
So if you lean in and drink
What you'll find is there's subtle sweetnesses on the back end
That are only reserved for people that'll lean in
Grief is the same way
So many of us are in distraction experiments
Where we're trying to distract our senses from the bitterness of grief
With sex and accomplishments and compliments and all types of stuff
And in an attempt to mask the bitterness of grief
The only thing that we do is disqualify ourselves from the prerequisite
leaning into it that unlocks the sweetnesses on the back end
Coffee is bitter
Grief is bitter
But we don't have to stop there
Both of those can be bittersweet