11 years

It's been 11 years since I saw you

11 years since that fateful day

11 years since we've spoken

11 years since you've gone away

I was only 8 years old

I didn't fully understand

I never went to your funeral

I couldn't see you under sand

The reason that I didn't go

Is why I haven't been today

I always want my final memory

To be of us at play

11 years have come and gone

And not a single day goes by

That I don't sit here and wonder

Why did you have to die?