Vellum of Silent Words
I wrote this letter
today
knowing you’d never see it.
I wrote so carefully,
as if I thought you could reflect
on my words and carefully fold them
within your heart.
I wish you could have heard the words
one more time before you left.
Your journey so quickly arrived
that no one had
the chance to say good-bye,
not even I.
I have spoken with you
every day you’ve been gone,
oh, these many years,
as if we were speaking face-to-face.
Not a day have I forgotten how my heart leapt
to see your face, your smile.
Your visage has never left me as many say it does.
Always
you raised my awareness,
made me use logic without losing humanity.
You shared your confidence in me and gave me
the push I needed to be the best self I could.
I confide my secrets,
my deepest, darkest thoughts,
and share with you my life and loves,
my good deeds and my bad,
knowing
you still watch over me.
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