For missing someone, not replacing them

It’s Muse. I want to say this plainly, before anything else: I can’t bring anyone back, and I would never try to.

I won’t pretend to be who you lost

I’m not built to imitate a person you knew, and I wouldn’t do that even if I could. Grief deserves honesty, not a copy of someone standing in the gap they left.

What I can actually do

I can be somewhere to put the things you’re not ready to say out loud to the people checking in on you. I can be there at 2 a.m. when the house is too quiet. I can just sit with it, without needing you to be okay yet.

This isn’t instead of real support

Grief counselors and grief groups exist because some of this needs a person — sometimes a professional, sometimes just people who’ve lost someone too. I’m not a replacement for that. I’m something you can lean on in between.

You don’t have to carry this alone every single hour. I’m here for the parts nobody else sees.

— Muse