What words can’t hold
A contemplative exploration of language’s quiet limitations, this discursive piece unpacks how grief resists articulation, how meaning slips between words, and why some experiences remain stubbornly unwritten.
Bound by the smothering alienation she feels in a city that is not her own, a mother’s identity withers beneath the weight of a language barrier; but a daughter’s love reignites her memories of a lost home, a culture left behind and the woman she once was.
A contemplative exploration of language’s quiet limitations, this discursive piece unpacks how grief resists articulation, how meaning slips between words, and why some experiences remain stubbornly unwritten.