You Are Gone

“You are gone

though we never crossed paths

I miss you.

I spend hours wondering about you

thinking ‘what would he do?’

because I know your choice would be the right one.

Like others you fell

not from grace or glory

but in that coldness of death.

I mourn you even now

time spent wondering passes like seconds

they melt into hours.

People say you can’t miss what you didn’t have

they are wrong.

I miss you like I would the stars.

I hear your final song every night

and every night it makes me miss you more

The night I miss you no more

Is the night I join you

in the cold embrace of eternal rest.”